e 
filiform-pointed; branch-leaves ovate-oblong long-acuminate, Tufts 
pale green. Sometimes pseudo-monoecious. Capsules unkno 
— Limestone rocks r. Amer. Can.: Macoun; Waghorne. 
B. Leaves serrate all around broad and somewhat large sub- 
obtusate or abruptly short-acuminate. Stem thick rigid. : 
3.E.scabridum Lindberg in litt. — Bryhnia Kaurin. j 
Leaves short acute faintly striate strongly mamillose, long- 
decurrent recurved near base; alar cells somewhat numerous, 
the others sublinear-lanceolate; costa vanishing near middle 
or shorter. Stem-leaves ovate; branch-leaves ovate-oblong. Cap- 
sule suboval; lid long-conic. Tufts dark green. Stem decum- 
bent gen. irregularly divided; branches short obtuse dista 
straight often subjulaceous. Dioecious. — Earth r. Eur. Norway: 
N. Bryhn; E. Nyman. 
C. Leaves serrulate at the subulate shortish point, broad ant 
somewhat large. Stem thick rigid. 
4.E.Nove Angliz Sullivant et Lesquereux. — Hypnum $8. L. 
Sull. ic. m.; Eurhynchium Kindb.; Hypnum Lq. et Jam. — 
Leaves not striate, nearly appressed when dry and not recu 
ved, from gen. broad-ovate base abruptly acuminate; alar 
subquadrate, the others lower suboval, the upper oblong-lan 
late; costa vanishing below acumen. Capsule oblong or curved 
lid long-conie sometimes rostellate; pedicel not long. Tufts 
somewhat loose, brownish or yellowish at least below, often 
pale green above. Stem ascending subpinnate; branches gen. 
straight and short. Dioecious. — Wet rocks r. Amer. Can. 
Moser. U. S: Austin, com. Macoun; Sullivant et Lesq., com. 
Cardot. 
5.E.chloropterum C. M. et Kindb. — Hypnum cat. Can. | 
Differs from the last: Leaves striate not appressed, often 
recurved to middle, less abruptly narrowed, glaucous green a 
longer decurrent; upper cells sublinear; costa shorter, vanishing 
near middle. Branches often fasciculate in upper part of stem, 
us. curved. Sometimes monoecious. Resembles somewhat 
Hypnum decipiens or a Thuidium in habit. — Wet earth a 
rocks r. Amer. Can. N. Brunswick: Moser; N. Foundl. comme 
Waghorne, : 
II. Stokesiella Kindb. 
l. Preelonga. 
A. Leaves denticulate all around. ti 
a. Leaves long-acuminate; those of stem very broad at base, 
long-decurrent; angular cells numerous, special alar large. — 
