Two new (1-2) as well as five known (3-7) compounds were isolated from Polytrichum commune, a folk herbal medicine in China, and three of them (2, 4, 5) belong to benzonaphthoxanthenones that are rarely found in nature. Their structures were elucidated by the approach to 1D and 2D NMR spectra. The
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