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Sporledera Beyrichiana Hpe. |. c. 
Almost acaulescent, about 2 mm. high, light yellow, with the 
leaves crowded, sometimes 6-8 of equal length, flexuose, base 
%-Y, the length of the awn, vein broadest where the awn starts, 
margins sub-serrulate, apex ending in 1-3 larger clearer cells, 
those of the back of the leaf, subpapillose, by the thickening of the 
short transverse walls of the cell, seta short, erect, slightly bent at 
apex, as if becoming arcuate, calyptra large, .075 mm. long, .059 
mm. wide, lobes 6-8, not very deep. Capsule and spores not yet 
formed. : 
Type locality near Baltimore, Beyrich (1833). — 
Mr. Anthony Gepp, of South Kensington Museum, sent me 
copies of drawings from Hampe’s specimens made by him and 
Carl Miiller showing that the type is no more developed than the 
portion of it in Sullivant's Herbarium, hence we shall have to drop 
B. Beyrichiana from the list of North American species, as #15 
utterly impossible to tell what the character of its capsules or 
spores might be. _ = 
Phascum Beyrichtanum Schwegr. Suppl. 4 307 (1842). Te: 
type of this species was sent to us from the Boissier Herbarium 
and was compared with Hampe’s specimens of Sporledera Beyrich- 
tana, from Sullivant’s Herbarium. I find no record of locality on 
the sheet other than “« Am bor.,” though the text says: 
“In America boreali D, Schweinitzio lectum, dedit D. Arnott; Sporlederam ® 
Beyrichio Baltimore lectam E. Hampe habet.” 
Evidently then they were not the same specimens nor gathered 
by the same collector, though Schwegrichen gave his the Samm - : 
_ specific name and referred Hampe’s to it as a synonym. we 4 
compared the plants are taller than Hampe’s 2-3 mm. high, lige . 
yellow, with longer more papillose, twisted leaves, with involuts : 
margins, channeled vein, curved pedicel, over I mm. high; a = 
capsules still immature, but sufficiently developed to show the long a 
neck of a Bruchia. (See Figs. 6-7, ¢. 307). Comparing a pew - 
with Plate 301, the figures which are not correct are Fig. 8, whe : 
would seem to belong to an Orthotrichum, as the young immatur 
capsules of the type are perfectly smooth, and Fig. 5, of the ae 
of the leaf, which is too broad and blunt as seen with the impro™ a 
objectives of modern microscopes, and should be figured ies i 
_ Serrulate tip to agree with type specimens. : 
