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Bruchia brevipes Sul. Mosses U.S. 17 (1856); Icon. Musc. 24, 
t. 14 (1864), non Hooker. 
Plants gregarious, glossy, yellow, 3-4 m. high, stems decum- 
bent and naked at base, densely leafy above; leaves 10-15, 
uppermost often 3 mm. long, erect or subsecund, abruptly con- 
tracted from a broad base, less than one-third the length of the 
slender tip, vein narrow, not occupying all of the serrate, chan- 
neled apex, occasionally serrulate on the back; cells narrow, more 
lax at base. Autoicous, the antheridia in basal buds; seta — 
-25~—.50 mm. long; capsule erect, immersed or slightly exserte 
laterally, one or two in the same perichetium, .75 mm. aie 
apiculate, upper half bright orange-colored, neck shorter, paler, 
truncate at base; calyptra smooth, lobate; spores .035-.043 mm., 
reticulate, maturing in March and April. 
Type locality, Lotisiana, Drummond, on sandy soil ; also oe 
lected in South Carolina by Ravenel, and near Petersburg, Virginia, 
by T. P. James. 
Differing from Hooker's type of Bruchia brevipes, collected by 
Harvey at the Cape of Good Hope, Africa, in the larger se of 
the plants, longer more slender leaves, with the vein not occupy- 
ing all of the apex, the margins distantly but distinctly serrate, 
larger capsules, and spores which are reticulate, not spinose. 
We have received from Mr. Gepp some sketches and tia 
from Wilson’s Herbarium which show that he realized that a mS 
take had been made in distributing Drummond’s specimens we 
the same name as Harvey’s African ones. The following list oF 
manuscript names shows this: oo 
Bruchia flexuosa var. %. 
nana Wils. mss. 
brevipes H. & W.in Drummd. M. Am. 
setacea Wils. mss. 
Drummondi Wis. mss. : 
Mr. Gepp notes that the last was used April’ 7, 1865, and 1s 
Wilson’s name, though it is the same as the one credited to eae 
in Sched. by Jaeger in his Musci Cleistocarpi on page 36 under - 
brevipes. . 
Bruchia brevipes Hook. Icon. Plant 4. 237 (1840). 
Phascum elegans Usch. Linnea 15: 114 (1841). Mee, 
The plants from which this species was described wee or ae 
lected at the Cape of Good Hope, by Harvey in July 1837) ee 
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