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as cited by localities in the Icones, and the original drawing of 
t-15 is also preserved, but it bears no label to indicate from 
what specimen it was made; it is dated 1857. The specimens 
issued in Drummond’s Southern mosses No. 15, as Bruchia Voge- 
staca var. 2. Hab. Louisiana and New Orleans, were mixed both 
in Sullivant’s set and ours. Three different species have been 
separated from it, two new, B. curviseta L. & J. Man. 47 (1884), 2. 
_ brevifolia Sul. (1856), and B. Sudiivanti Austin (B. flexuosa Sull.), 
the last being preserved with A. drevifolia in Sullivant’s Herbarium, 
and mixed with it also in our specimen, hence probably the follow- . 
ing comparison of Sullivant’s. It will be noted that he reiterates 
the statements made in the Mosses of the United States that 
the spores are “ about the same.” This mistake was rectified in 
the Icones, in tables 13 and 15, Fig. 12, where they differ m one 
being spinose, the other pitted. In S. and L. Musci Bor. Am. 
Ed. 2, No. 44, they are young enough to show that four spores are 
formed in each mother cell. 
Bruchia brevifolia (sp. nov. Sulliv). 
“ Compared with B. flexuosa, it is a shorter plant, capsule larger 
in proportion, more oblong in general outline, not so elliptical, 
tapering to each end, the operculum shorter, pedical much shorter, 
not flexuose, scarcely emergent from the perichaetial leaves, 
which are rigid, erect, connivent, with a much shorter acumination 
from an oblong more broad obovate sheathing base, the lower pea 
leaves are triangular, ovate, all with a heavy percurrent costa-retic 
ulation of leaves the same, the spores also about the same, one 
spore measuring .03 to .031% millimeters in diameter. — The por 
B. flexuosa is a slender flexuose plant; the B. drevifolia is a st 
short stumpy plant. 
“ B. brevifolia is the B. Vogesiaca var. 2, No. 15 of Hook. and «- 
‘Wilson in Drummond's Southern Mosses, partly, viz.: the middle 
specimen in my copy, which see. ung 
“ Neither can B. érevifolia be considered an immature OF y 0 
state of B. flexuosa, because the capsules and spores are bar det 
veloped and ripened. B. flexuosa preserves its peculiar sic? 
habit in all stages of growth, and in all situations varying, how- 
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ever, a great deal in size; further the two species appear tO gro e 
in exactly similar soils. -< the 
“B. brevifolia is moncecious (see Fig.), the same, however, ue j 
case with B. flexuosa notwithstanding Miiller Synopsis Muse. re 
it is dioicous.” “W.S.S., July, 1850. 
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