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feared the two might be confused, or found in the same localities, 
but so far as we know, B. drevifolia has only been collected in 
Texas, South Carolina and Louisiana, the latter being the type 
locality. 
_ 8. BRUCHIA FUSCA nN. sp. 
(Plate 216.) 
__4\utoicous, the antheridia in basal buds; plants gregarious, 
light yellow or brown, 2-3 mm. high, protonema more or less 
persistent; stems short, 1-2 mm. long, naked at base, leaves few, 
three to six, erect-appressed, short, I mm. or less, sometimes 
reaching the base of the capsule, clasping, often broader than long 
and tricuspidate, entire, or subserrulate with a narrow border of 
small, retuse cells, apex obtuse, acute or cucullate, vein faint, end- 
Ing below the apex, or lacking in the lower rudimentary leaves ; 
cells lax at base; seta short, .25-.50 mm. long, immersed or 
slightly exserted, straight or curved; capsule large and broad, 
'-I.5 mm. long, entirely exserted, ovoid-pyriform, suddenly 
apiculate, neck shorter than, occasionally equalling, the spore-sac, 
abrupt or tapering to the vaginule; walls of the capsule dense, 
brown, not transparent, stomata large; calyptra smooth, deeply 
lobed, half covering the capsule; spores small, .021-.027 mm. 
Frown, angled and pitted, maturing in April. 
Growing around quartz pebbles in sandy soil, Maryland, J. 
Donnell Smith, 1878, also recently collected at the “The Runs, 
Pine Bluff, North Carolina, April 11, 1891,” by Anna H. Searing, 
M. D., the latter specimens showing the more tapering necks, but 
agreeing in every other point with those collected by J. D. Smith. 
Differing from B&B. dbrevifolia, to which it had been referred by 
Austin on account of its short leaves and pitted spores, in the 
Smaller size of the plants, the short, 3-pointed leaves; the vein 
Ceasing below the apex, but more especially in the capsules, 
Which are shorter and broader, brown, not orange-colored, with a 
Shorter neck tapering at the base. From #&. Halli, which it re- 
Sembles in the erect-appressed habit of its leaves, it differs in the 
Shorter seta, longer neck, and the much smaller, pitted spores. ~ 
9. Brucu1A Drummonpil Hpe. 
Bruchia Drummondii Hpe. in Sched.; Jeger, Musci Cleist. 36 
1869). 
U.S. No. 16 (1841). 
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Bruchia brevipes Hook. & Wilson in Drummond's Mosses So. Ae 
