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sules, and these had fallen off. No calyptras are preserved, and 
the seta is so short, or lacking, that only the vaginule remains, so 
that the capsules appear to have been sessile. The plants are 
short, less than 3 mm. high, acaulescent, autoicous, the an- 
theridia in basal buds. The leaves are setaceous and secund, 
2 mm. long, serrate at apex, smooth on the back or with very 
slightly protuberant walls. The spores are .032 mm. and dis- 
tinetly reticulate. The capsules are minute, less than I mm. long, 
void apiculate, with a rounded base and no neck. 
We have not been able to place them satisfactorily in any of 
the species which we now recognize on account of their incom- 
plete state, but we cannot agree with Lesquereux and James in 
feferring them to &. flexuosa asa variety, for that species has a 
distinct stem, and is not autoicous. We think it is more likely to 
be B. Drummondii Upe. (B. brevipes Hook. & Wils.), with which 
it agrees in being autoicous and acaulescent, and in the reticulate 
Spores, but differs in lacking the short truncate neck, so character- 
istic of that species. We do not agree with Mr. Gepp in think- 
ing that they are the same as Wilson’s specimens, for the de- 
scription calls for a smooth calyptra and his were rough. 
We had thought it possible that it might be Sporledera palus- 
iris, as that species had a short truncate base to the capsule, with- 
Sut the inflated neck so characteristic of the Bruchias, but these 
‘specimens are autoicous, whereas .S. palustris is paroicous and the 
Spores are warty. 
Brucuia MICROCARPA Wilson in Jaeger, Musci Cleist. 37 (1869). 
&. flexuosa var. microcarpa L. & J. Manual 46 (1884). 
The original description given by Jeger, of which the one in 
the Manual is a translation, reads as follows: 
“ Gracillima ; foliis e basi latiore angustissime subulatis, nervo lato percursis, 
on hargine obsolete denticulatis, capsula gracile eleganter pyriformi, longius apicu- 
ap: culo erecto, pedicello elongata, calyptra tenera lzevi. 
: 8 ruchia microcarpa Wils, in litt. 
atria. In Louisiana clar. Drummond collegit.” 
The specimens in Jeger’s Herbarium are labelled « Bruchia 
Microcarpa, Wilson ; Louisiana, Drummond,” without any number 
°r indication of what they were called in Drummond's Mosses. 
They have been examined and compared with other species and 
agree with ZB, brevipes, distributed in Drummond’s Mosses as No. 
