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stems erect, 3-4 mm. high, slender, flexuose, leafy to base; leaves 
curled and recurved, spreading when dry, 1.5-2 mm. long, sud- 
denly contracted into a rough subulate apex, from a broad, hyaline 
clasping base ; lower cells smooth, clear, upper papillose by the 
thickening of the walls, margins more or less recurved and serrate 
above; seta exserted, erect or curved, I.5—2 mm. long, capsules 
nearly 2 mm. long, orange-colored becoming brown, apiculate, 
beak straight ; neck large, half the length of the capsule, tapering, 
stomatose ; calyptra smooth, lobed; spores .032—.037 mm. papil- 
lose, maturing in early spring, from February to April. 
Collected at Jacksonville and Rosedale, Florida, by J. Donnell 
Smith, 1877-1878; also at Gainesville, Florida, by C. E. Faxon, 
and Aiken, South Carolina, by H. W. Ravenel. 
Lxsiccate: Austin Musci App. Supp. 464. 
S. & L. Musci Bor. Am. Ed. 2d, No. 41 in part. 
Very nearly allied to B. Zexana and B. curviseta, from which 
_ it differs in its papillose not reticulate spores and distinctly papil- 
lose leaves. 
6. BrucutA Hau Aust. 
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(Plate 215.) 
Bruchia Hallii Aust. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, 5: 21 (1874). 
Paroicous, the antheridia axillary in the upper leaves. Plants 
4-5 mm. high, gregarious in light green patches; stems simple 
frect, 2-3 mm. high; leaves erect-appressed, the lower short, the 
upper not longer than 1 mm., all ovate-lanceolate, entire or ser- 
rulate, the vein ending in the acute apex; basal cells larger, very 
lax, upper fusiform or rhomboidal, marginal elongated, occasion- 
ally serrulate ; perichztial bracts broader, clasping; seta erect or 
curved, 11.5 mm. long, exserted ; capsules 1-1.5 mm. long, brown, 
Pytiform, apiculate, beak long, straight, neck tapering, paler than 
the brown wall of the upper half of the capsule, stomatose ; ca- 
lyptra smooth, lobed, covering only the upper part of the cap- 
Pt Spores large, .043~-.048 mm., papillose, maturing in Feb- 
ry. 
Type locality not recorded; collected in Texas by E. Hall, 
February 23, 1876, growing with Ditrichum pallidum. 
7. BRUCHIA BREVIFOLIA Sull. 
Bruchia brevifolia Sull. Moses. U. S., 17 (1856) Icon. Muse. 25, 
4 15 (1864). | 
In Sullivant’s Herbarium are preserved three sets of specimens 
