638 Grout: Revision of North American 



5 



1890 



F 



''Pedicel nearly smooth, slightly rough only below the cap- 

 sule. Oregon, Suavies Island (Th. Howell)/' M. Cardot very 

 kindly sent me a portion of this for examination. It agrees with 

 the typical form except as noted above. 



r 



Scleropodium colpophyllum (Sulliv.) 



. EurhyncJiiuin colpopjiylluui Sulliv. Icon. Muse. Suppl. 95. 



//. ;/. ■ 187.4. 



BracJiytJuxiniii colpopliyllitui Kindb. Can. Rec. Sci. 1894: 73. 

 1S94. 



EurJiyiicldum J/^rr^////// Kindb. Rev. Biyol. 22: 85. 1895. 



Ganictophytc in wide, soft intricate mats, dirty green : stems 

 creeping radiculose, about 5 cm. long, often stoloniferous, much 

 elongated : branches numerous, erect, about 5 mm. long, terete- 

 foliate, often julaceous : brancli leaves closely Imbricate when dry, 

 erect-spreading when moist, not decurrcnt, oblong-Ianceolate to 

 broadly-ovate-lanceolate, 1.3-1.5 x 0.45-0.6 mm., acute or broadly 

 acuminate, serrate above, very concave, scarcely plicate.; costa ex- 

 tending four fifths length of leaf, ending in a spine on the underside ; 

 median leaf-cells long linear, 14-18:1 ; basal somewhat shorter and 

 broader ; a few of the alar cells quadrate : stem leaves triangular- 

 ovate, long and slenderly acuminate, 1.3-1.8x0.8 mm. Dioicous, 

 perichactial leaves with sheathing bases and loosely erect open 

 points, oblong-ovate, slenderly acuminate, costate, nearly entire. 



^ Sporophyte about 15 mm. high : seta light brown, flex'uous, 

 twisted to the right, rough with rather distant conical papillae : 

 capsule brown, oblong cylindric, suberect, more or less arcuate, 

 with the operculum about 2 mm. long, 2.5-3:1 ; slightly con- 

 stricted under the mouth when dry; operculum conic-rostrate; 

 annulus present, of two rows of cells, easily detachable ; seg- 

 ments nearly as long as the teeth, widely split : cilia 2, strongly 

 nodose or subappendiculate ; spores minutely roughened, 0.012- 

 0.016 mm., maturing in autumn. 



Type locality, California, Bigelow. Type in the Gray Her- 



barium ; examined by the author. 



rA 



tosiim ; Vancouver Island, Macoun ; Alaska, KelloLTcr. 



Illustratioxs : Sulliv., /. c. Evidently Sullivant did not 

 figure any stem leaves as those on the type specimen are quite 

 different from any in the figure in the Iconcs. 





