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clearer neck, shorter, more subpapillose leaves. Mixed with Aus- 
tin’s B. Sullivanti are specimens which do agree with the type of 
Br. flexuosa, and these are labelled B. brevicollis L. & J. Those 
collected by J. Donnell Smith in Prince Edward County, Va., in 
1878, are labelled B. brevicollis L. & J., in blue ink, and above 
Austin has written B. Sudlivanti var. brevicollis, Austin. They 
differ according to Austin’s notes in the plants being “shorter 
with longer leaves, smooth on the back of the awn, dentate at 
apex, less canaliculate, with the capsule smaller, shorter beaked, 
the spores exactly as in B. Sullivanti, neck short, opaque. The 
seta is as often erect and straight as it is bent.” 
At the foot of the page (BULLETIN, 6: 143), Austin says: 
“ The true Bruchia flexuosa Schwegr. with autoicous inflores- 
cence and with spores about as in Br. Sudlivanti, is given in S. & 
L. Exsic. Ed. 2,n. 41. The specimens were probably collected 
in Ohio. I have not seen it from any other source.” | 
Austin did not have the type, nor could he have seen it, and — 
he was mistaken in saying “ with autoicous inflorescence,” for the 
type, as we have already shown, is paroicous; but the specimens ; 
referred to above (No. 41) were examined in our set, comp . 
and drawn side by side with the type, under the camera. The : 
type again has shorter and broader capsule, maintaining the same 
differences that it does to all the rest of Sullivant’s specimens: 
And lastly, No. 41 was compared with Austin’s 56, and they 
too both show with a magnification of 300 diameters the ese 
short, thickened transverse walls on the back of the vein, which 
gives it the subpapillose appearance. 
Bruchia flexuosa Sull. Icon. Musc. 22, ¢. 13 (1864). 
The specimens found in the cover of Bruchia flexuosa S€ 
me from Sullivant’s Herbarium are labelled and numbered 4° s 
foilows : 
44. B. flexuosa, Texas, Wright, 1845. ae 
60 and 65. B. flexuosa Br. & Sch., Lancaster, Ohio, Le? a 
quereux, 1849. ce 
B. flexuosa var. ? Cleveland, Ohio, Dr. Cassell, June, 185 
B. flexuosa, Columbus, Ohio, Lesquereux, May, 1861. 
172. B. flexuosa, eight miles below Portsmouth, Va., - se 
James, March, 1867. ae 
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