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Differing from B. flexuosa with which it is mixed in Sullivant’s 
and Austin’s Herbaria, in the longer seta, shorter leaves, and — 
larger reticulate spores. The specimens credited to Virginia col- 
lected by J. D. Smith in Austin’s Musci Appalachiani, Supple- 
ment, No. 463, are B. Drummondii in Austin’s Herbarium. 
. curviseta L. & J., is very closely allied to this species. 
4. Brucuta curVISETA L, & J. 
Bruchia curviseta L. & J. Man. 47 (1824). 
B. Vogesiaca var. 2, Drummond’s Southern Mosses, No. 15, 
in part. 
B. Texana Austin, Musci Appach. Suppl. No. 463, in part. 
The description in the Manual is good, but the following meas- 
urements should be added from Drummond’s specimens: 
Plants short, 2 mm. high, upper leaves 1 mm. long, often’ >= 
reaching to the summit of the capsules; blunt, dentate or serrate 
at apex; seta short, .0.5—-1 mm. often bent abruptly in two direc- 
tions; capsules small, 1 mm., neck contracted below the spore-sac 
when dry; spores spinosely reticulate, .032-.040-.045 mm. the 
reticulations often .oo8—.013 mm. in size. ; 
~ Specimens were distributed by Austin in his Musci Appala- 
chiana as No. 463 as B. Zexana, collected by Ravenel in South 
Carolina. It is very close to that species but smaller, and the 
spores are perhaps slightly more distinctly reticulate than 1n B. 
Texana. 
The type locality is uncertain, as two are given. The label of 
Drummond's No, 15 reads “ Louisiana and New Orleans,” and the 
specimens are mixed with B. drevifolia Sull. in Sullivant’s set, 2M" 
_ with that species and two others, B. Su/iivanti and B. Drummond” 
(B. brevipes) in our set. oe 
Austin also had it from Maryland, collected by J. he 
Smith, labelled B. Suddivanti, « spores too large,” and from Prince , 
Edward County, Virginia, also from J. Donnell Smith, and from og 
South Carolina, collected by H. W. Ravenel. ; 
Lal 
5. Brucuia Donne Aust. 
Bruchia Donnellii Aust. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 6: 144 (1877 yy 
Pla 
(Plate 214.) eaves e 
_ py, Paroicous, the antheridia naked in the axils of the upper St 
Plants gregarious in light yellowish green patches, : sea ae 
