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distributed as No. 42 of S. & L. Musci Bor. Am. Ed. 2 (1865), . 
of which there is only one specimen preserved in Sullivant’s Her- 
barium bearing a single capsule. The sterile specimens are much 
more branching than is usual in the genus. Specimens of No. 
42 in our herbarium, two sets in the Jeger Herbarium and those 
in Prof. Eaton’s set have been examined and the spores meas- 
ured. They vary considerably in size. In our set they are 
larger, .036-.045 mm., rough, though not spinose, and the out- 
lines of the spores is not very regular. In the Jeger sets I find 
some spores as small as .027—.029 mm., but with same character- 
istic surface. These latter have the capsules long-beaked, on a 
curved seta. : 
The differences, however, do not seem to be sufficient to sepa- 
rate it as a species, and the remarks by James in the Proc. Am. 
Acad. 14: 135, 1879, and in the Manual would seem to account 
for its variation. 
“ The variety is evidently due to immersion, as higher upon 
the dry sand of the borders of the depressions the moss gradu- 
ally assumes its normal form.” 
3- Brucuta Texana Aust. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, §: 21 (1874). 
(Plate 213.) 
Paroicous, the antheridia naked in the axils of the upper leaves. 
ants gregarious, light yellow, varying in size at maturity in the 
rame patch, 3-5 mm. high; stems simple, erect, 2-3 mm. high; 
leaves smaller at base, crowded around the base of the seta, not 
reaching the capsule, uppermost 1-1.5 mm. long, broadly clasping 
at base, contracted into a short subulate awn, composed principally 
of the thick vein, slightly rough on the back, ending below the 
S“trate apex, narrow and distinct at base; cells of the basal lamina 
oblong and lax below, becoming irregular, crowded, and serrulate 
along the awn; seta I-1.5 m. long, erect, or twisted and recurved, 
*xceeding the leaves; capsule 1.5-2 mm. long, bright orange above, 
with a long, slender beak; neck large, paler, and contracted when 
'y, abrupt at base and stomatose, half the length of the capsule, 
calyptra not reaching the neck; spores yellow, spinosely reticulate, 
40-045 mm., maturing in? 
Type locality near Houston, Texas, Hall, also collected by 
tight in Texas, 1845, in herb Sullivant under 2B. flexuosa (No. 
_ 44). Since collected in South Carolina by Ravenel, and Alabama 
a by Chas, Mohr. : ‘ 
