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as distinct species; that is if spore-characters, aside from all 
others, are of any value in classification, for the spores of B. Caro- 
ine are as distinctly pitted as those of B. drevifolia (Sull. Icon. ¢. 
15, fig. 12), while those of B. Ravenel are reticulated with crests 
as described above. Other differences are evident on careful com- 
parison. The plants are smaller, the capsules less immersed, the 
calyptra less papillose, the beak longer and more.conic, the neck 
longer and clearer and the spores smaller. The leaves are vart 
able in length, sometimes not reaching the base of the capsule, at 
others far overtopping it, with the seta erect or curved and the 
capsules protruding laterally or immersed. 
Austin says that the inflorescence may be either syncecious Or 
occasionally autoicous. The type specimens and all the others I 
have examined show the antheridia in small basal buds, easily 
distinguished by their darker color. : 
In Sullivant’s Herbarium it is mixed with the specimens which 
he figured for B. Drummondii, Hpe. (B. brevipes Hook. & Wilson), 
but we have compared the figures in the Icones (t. 14), and they 
all seem to have been drawn from the larger specimens. 
UNCERTAIN OR REJECTED SPECIES’ AND VARIETIES. 
Bruchia flexuosa var. minor C. Miller, Syn. Musc. 1: 20 (i 
Miller, says in the original description as compared with D. 
flexuosa: 
. * ‘ ee pips age ee pee a ice 
“In partibus omnibus minor, foliis brevioribus strictioribus angustioribus, 4p 
hyalino. 
“3. Florida: Schimp. sub nomino Aruchia brevipedis Hook. in herb. Hampe-_ 
ano,” 
Sullivant in the Icones (1864) cites this variety as one of thes 
synonyms of B. érevipes, but makes a mistake in the specific name 
and in the number (15) of Drummond’s exsiccate. B. brevipes 
was distributed as No. 16. . 
Jeger in his Musci Cleistocarpi, p. 36 (1869), cites this varie 
also as asynonym of B. brevipes, and adds B. Drummondi Hpe ae 1 
_ Sched., citing the specimens distributed in S. & L. Muse! a a 2 
Am. No. 45, which were issued as B. brevipes Hook. 
: : : : ove. ae 
Jeger's Herbarium contained two sets of S. & L. cited abov ’ 
_ and another specimen of B. drevipes from South Carolina, sent hi 
