=- 107 — 
spurio-rutabulum and sometimes B. rivulare) not plicate when 
moist, often recurved. Lid of capsule (exc. sometimes B. vallium 
and B. asperrimum) not rostrate; pedicel rough. — . 
Leaves not abruptly narrowed to the less often filiform point. 
a. Leaves gen. short and broad, r. recurved, sometimes plicate. 
III. Rutabularia. Pedicel of capsule distinctly and wholly 
. rough. Mostly dioecious. 
. b. Leaves not plicate, often recurved, gen. long. 
IV. Plumosaria. Pedicel of capsule very faintly rough or 
sometimes nearly smooth. Monoecious. 
V. Pseudo-Plumosaria. Pedicel of capsule very rough; lid 
sometimes rostrate. Monoecious or dioecious. 
D. Leaves not large and gen. not broad, r. plicate and less 
often recurved. Lid of capsule not rostrate; pedicel us. rough. 
VL Velutinaria. Stem us. creeping. 
I. Salebrosaria Kindb. 
1. Eplicata. 
l.B.Mildei Schimper. — Hypnum aeutum Mitten; Brachythe- 
eium Sull. ic. m. 
Leaves nearly entire (or faintly sinuolate) narrowly ovate- 
oblong or ovate-lanceolate with long subulate acumen, not re- 
curved below, subdecurrent somewhat distant; alar cells some- 
what large hyaline not few, the others sublinear; costa longish 
but not reaching to acumen. Capsule arcuate; teeth brown- 
Yellow; cilia appendiculate; annulus none; lid conic apiculate; 
pedicel often long. Tufts green or yellowish faintly glossy and 
sparingly radiculose. Branches slightly compressed often sub- 
Pinnate. Monoecious or synoecious us. fruiting. — Peat-bogs, 
logs and stones not common. Eur. Sweden! Germany: Milde. 
.. Amer. Can.: Macoun. U. S.: com. Macoun; Roell. 
 ?B.pseud-albieans Kindb. bull. Torr. club XVII. 
Leaves short-acuminate faintly denticulate all around, some- 
What, distant, patent when dry; lowest basal cells finally brown, 
r large on a triangular space, the others linear-lanceolate; 
Costa short vanishing below or near middle. Stem-leaves ovate; 
branch-leaves ovate-oblong. Tufts yellowish sparingly radiculose. 
ranches compressed. Capsules unknown. Dioecious. — Wet 
gs or sand-dunes near Pacific sea r. Amer. Can. Vanc. isl: 
Coun Canad. m. n. 285. 
2. Plicata. - 
ES Leaves us. entire, more or less appressed when dry. 
lid of capsule acute; cilia not appendiculate. 
