E. G. Britton : A new Tertiary fossil Moss 



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recently in the Old World in deposits of late geological horizons 

 and referable definitely or provisionally to living species. 



The only fossil moss with capsules, which I have been able to 



rdcd is Gymnosto)>imn fcrruginciini Ludwig (Palaeont. 8 ; 

 ^3^f- 9, 9^- 1859-61) found in the brown hematite 

 deposits of Montabauer. The specimen shows six de- 

 tached capsules and a few fragmentary branches. Schimper in his 

 Traite de Paleontologie Vcgetale refers this specimen to the peat 



tiary 



Sph 



cymbifc 



Hay den Lesq., 



Kept. 1874: 309. i8;6; Tcrt. Fl. 



which is almost certainly a Lycop 



Hyp 



from the Eocene of Colorado (Hayden's Ann. 



'diiun, and few fragmentary re- 

 mains of living species from the Pleistocene deposits of Canada, 

 described by Dawson and Penhallow (Bull. Geol. Soc. Am. i : 

 315, 332. 1890). The specimen now described, is therefore prob- 

 ably the first extinct species and the oldest fossil species recorded 

 from America. 



