Stuntz : North American Species of Eleutera 209 



the species, but Drummond's original label in Herbarium Can. 

 Geol. Survey gives description, and Hooker himself, Bot. Misc. I : 

 132, speaks of it as described by Drummond. 



4. Eleutera ornithopodioides (Scop.) nom. nov. 



Gametopliyte small, soft, yellowish-green : secondary stems 

 slender, 2-4 cm. in length, pendent, pinnately divided into short 

 tapering branches, which are sometimes flagellate : leaves plane, 

 unsymmetrical at base, elliptical, sharply and strongly apiculate, 

 minutely serrulate at tip : costa short, indistinct : cells at tip rhom- 

 boidal, at middle and base linear, at angles very short and irregu- 

 lar : dioicous : perichaetial leaves narrow, long. Sporophyte : cap- 

 sule small on long slender seta : lid narrowly oblique, rostrate, 

 teeth pale, narrow : segments short from an enlarged base. (From 

 ornithos, bird, pons, foot, oidos, like.) 



Type, European. 



Rocks, Newfoundland, south in mountains to Tennessee ; rare. 



Syn.: Mnscns trichomanoides filicifolius splendens Vaill. Bot. 

 Par. 139.//. 23. f. 4. 1727. Hypnum pennatum, compression 

 et splendens, capsulis ovatis Dill. Hist. Muse. 268. pi. 34. f. 7. 

 1 74 1. Hypnum ornithopodioides Scop. Fl. Cam. 164 1760. 

 Hypnnm complanatum L. Sp. PL 1588. 1763. Leskia compla- 

 natwn Hedw. Fund. Muse. 2: 93. pi. 10. f. 62-65. 1782. 

 Leskea Onialia complanata Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2: 327. 1827. 

 Neckera complanata Hub. Muscol. Germ. 576. 1832. Homalia 



complanata de Not. Epil. 199. 1869. 



Illns.: Vaill. 1. c; Dill. 1. c; Hedw. 1. c; Smith & Sowerby, 

 Eng. Bot. pi. 7492 ; Funck, Deutsch Moose, //. 35. f. 1; Bruch 

 & Schimper, Bryol. Eur. pi. 444 ; Wilson, Bryol. Brit. //. 24b. 



Exsic; Sull. & Lesq. Muse. Bor. Am. (Ed. 1) 267, (Ed. 2) 



396. 



All the American specimens seen are sterile ; sporophyte de- 

 scription taken from European specimens. 



In case Hedwig, 1792, is taken as starting point for nomencla- 

 ture, replace "ornithopodioides (Scop.)" by " complanta 



(Hedw.)." 



5. Eleutera disticha (Sw.) nom. nov. 



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green : primary stems short : 



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