= 4$ — 
Not r. fruiting. Earth and stone in woods. Eur. not uncommon. 
Sweden, Germany, France, Switzerl.! 
5.H.meridionale Schimper. — Hypnum Sch.; Hylocomium 
Kindb. 
Leaves crowded brown-green faintly striate; angular cells nu- 
merous oval-rectangular not large, lower dusky. . All leaves 
long-aeuminate with very broad subcordate base, often filiform- 
pointed, nearly spreading when moist; costa vanishing at base. 
of acumen.  Perichetial leaves yellow. with very narrow cells, 
.dentieulate only at acumen Capsule small subobovate brown; 
lid rostellate; pedicel much shorter than in the last. Stem 
decumbent; branches crowded obtuse often curved. Very. r. 
fruiting. — On stone r. Eur. France: Husnot; Philibert; Ber- 
thoumieu. Italy: Bottini; Arcangeli. Spain: Dieck, com. Roell. 
II. Pleurozium Sullivant. 
6.H.proliferum L. — Hypnum L.; Hylocomium Lindberg; 
H. splendens (Hedw.) Br. eur. 
Basal stem-leaves long-acuminate us. hyaline; middle (larger) 
Stem-leaves | decurrent ovate-oblong abruptly short-acuminate, 
serrate above middle; basal cells numerous purplish or r. orange, 
angular dilated subrectangular. Branch-leaves suboblong obtusate 
often acute, minutely denticulate above. Capsule suboblong or 
arcuate; lid rostrate; pedicel long. Stem proliferous by new 
. Shoots; branches large distant. — Earth in woods common, 
. Eur. Sweden ete.! Amer.: Macoun ete. 
T.H.alaskanum James. — Hypnum Jam.; Hylocomium Kindb. 
Less robust than the last, often simply pinnate; branches us. 
crowded. — Stem-leaves smaller not decurrent more crowded, 
ovate obtuse or short-pointed, faintly serrulate above; lower 
. basal cells reddish not numerous, angular indistinct. Branch- 
. leaves subovate or suboblong gen. obtuse nearly entire. Cap- 
sules unknown. — On earth in open heaths prine. in alps. - 
Eur, Norway! Sweden (below alps)! Spetsbergen: R. Gyllen- 
creutz. Switzerl: Culmann, com. Husnot. Amer. Alaska: J. M. 
; Macoun; Dall, herb. James, com, C. Mueller. Can.: Macoun; 
.. Waghorne, 
= ILL. | Hyocomium Br. eur. in part. d 
S Humbratum Ehrhart. — Hypnum Ehrh.; Hylocomium 
CnBü o. : in fey 
., Leaves sharply fimbriate, at least those of branches; lower 
basal cells dilated. Stem-leaves ovate-oblong short-acuminate; 
 branch-leaves oblong-lanceolate. Capsule oval-oblong; lid cepi 
