BULLETIN 
TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB. 
vision of the Claopodiums.* 
By G. N. Best. 
Claopodium as a subgenus under Aypnum was established by 
Lesquereux and James+ to include a few species found only in the 
northwestern portion of the United States and the extreme south- 
western portions of British America. 
The Claopodiums occupy a position midway between the 
Anomodons on the one hand and the 7huidiums on the other, dif- 
fering from the former by their hypnoid capsules, from the latter 
by the absence of filamentose paraphyllia and from both by their 
thickened-papillate leaf-cells. Although closely related to both of 
these genera it seems impossible to connect Claopodium with either 
without doing injustice to its affinities. The better way therefore 
is to allow it generic rank, as has already been done by Renauld 
& Cardot, which it deserves equally as well as either Anomodon or 
Thuidium., 
CLAOPODIUM Ren. & Card. Musc. Am. Sept. 50. 1893. 
Plant small to quite large, growing on the ground, stones, 
rocks or base of trees. Stems creeping, radiculose, stoloniferous ; 
Paraphyllia when present squamiform; stem leaves triangular to 
broadly ovate, long and narrowly acuminate, margins plane, den- 
-* Based chiefly on specimens furnished by Columbia University, the Geological 
Survey of Canada and by Mr. M. A. Howe. Iam indebted to Mrs. Britton for val- 
—_ assistance in verifying synonyms and citations and in securing types. 
__ +t Mosses of North America, 327. 1884. ras a iene 
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