8% 
zontal, vough ; annulus compound, deciduous; operculum conical, 
slenderly beaked, usually oblique, as long as the capsule; spores 
.007 to .O10 mm., almost smooth., maturing in autumn. 
On rotton wood, not rarely on the ground and on stones in the 
Southern States. From New Brunswick to Minnesota and from 
Canada to Florida. 
Type locality, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Muhlenberg. 
Ittust. Hedw. Musc. frond. p/. 34. 1791. Br. & Sch. Bryol. 
Eu. 5. p/. 48z. 1852. Husnot, Musc. Gall. gf. 8&7. 1894. 
Exsic. Drumm. Musc. Am. ed. 2. No. 137. Sull. Musci 
All. No. 4. Sull. & Lesq. Muse. Bor. Am. ed 2. no. 481. Aust. 
Musc. App. No. 297. Macoun, Can. Musc. no. 268. 
Rem. Distinguished from the closely related 7h. pygmacum by 
its larger size, dark green color, stem-leaves with longer costa and 
branch-leaves subcrispate when dry. 
3. THuipium scitum (Beauv.) Aust. 
3. Hypnum scitum Beauv. Prodr. 69. 1805. 
fypnum Stereodon scitus Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2: 575. 1827. 
Lhuidium scittem Aust. Musci App. 51: 1870. 
Rauia scita Aust. Bull. Torr. Club, ve ts YORO, 
Medium sized plants, glaucous-green to yellow-brown, in ap- 
pressed mats. Stem 4-6 cm. long, prostrate, simple or divided, 
densely pinnately branched; branches simple, spreading, Zerete 
when dry; paraphyllia multiform, mostly linear; _stem-leaves 
broadly triangular, swbauriculate-cordate, the pellucid costa van- 
ishing at the base of the long narrow curved acumen, bisulcate ; 
leaf-cells roundish hexagonal (.006 mm.) middle basal oblong, 
pluripapillate (3-6); branch-leaves broadly ovate-acuminate. 
Monoicous; perichetial bracts erect, long filiform-acuminate ; cap- 
sule oblong-cylindrical, straighé or slightly curved ; erect or inclined; 
annulus of three rows of large pellucid cells; teeth linear- 
lanceolate, pale; cilia 2-3, rarely perfect; operculum conical- 
rostrate ; spores rough .0o9-.011 mm. Maturing in the autumn _ 
and winter. 
On the roots, at base of trees, more commonly the beech, 
rarely on stones, or onthe ground. Canada (Macoun); Ohio (Miss - 
Biddlecome) ; New Jersey (Austin); Wisconsin (Gillman); Dis- 
trict of Columbia (Holzinger.) | 
Type locality, North American. Type in Delessert Herbarium, — 
Geneva, Switzerland. ey : : 
