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Jong, erect to slightly curved, slightly contracted below the 

 mouth when dry, nearly smooth ; annulus none ; operculum 

 conic-rostrate, about 1 mm. long; peristome-teeth shallowly in- 

 serted, orange-castaneous, non-striate but decidedly papillose, 

 strongly and rather densely trabeculate, the lamellae and di- 

 visural not very distinct, the teeth slender and often perforate 

 below; segments usually longer than teeth, linear, arising from 

 a very narrow and often somewhat perforate basal membrane 

 which is usually inserted entirely below the rim of the urn, 

 the segments yellowish, granular-papillose, perforate-cleft in 

 a ladder-like manner along the median line ; cilia none, or 

 sometimes represented by mere stubs rising from the basal 

 membrane; exothecial cells heavily incrassate, castaneous- 

 pellucid, oblong, the upper rounded-quadrate, those at the rim 

 smaller and transversely oblong, darkly incrassate ; spores 

 yellowish, minutely roughened, about .016-.01S mm., the walls 

 moderately incrassate. 



In damp, shady woods on rotten logs, stumps, wet soil, 

 rocks, etc., often in swamps. From Xew Brunswick to the 

 Carolinas and Alabama and west to the Rocky Mountain re- 

 gion. Not uncommon in our region but rather rarely found 

 in fruit. 



Allegheny : Darlington Hollo\v, Sharpsburg, August 



17, 1884, J. A. S., Moon Township, 1889. 

 J. A. S. (Figured) ; along creek near 

 Thornhill, May, 1906. O. E. T. and G. E. 

 K. ; near Douthett, April 26, 1908. 

 O. E. J. 

 Butler : Along creek north of Douthett, April 26, 



1908/ O. E. J. 



Crawford : Pymatuning S\vamp, Linesville, June 12, 



1905, and May 12, 1908. O. E. I. ; Harts- 

 town, May 29-31, 1909. O. E. J. and 

 G. K. J. 



McKean : Bradford. D. A. Burnett. (Porter's Cata- 



logue). 



Washington : Linn and Simonton. (Porter's Catalogue). 

 Westmoreland: Near Apollo, August 3, 1904. Miss K. R. 



Holmes; Hillside, May 22, 1900. O. E. J. 



3. Climacium kindbergii (Renauld and Cardot) Grout. 



(C. aincricaiiniii var. kindbergii Renauld and Cardot). 



(Plate XXXI) 



Dark yellowish-green to almost black, usually rather 

 densely cespitose : secondary stems about 3-6 cm. tall, some- 

 times indistinctly dendroidal, stout, castaneous, bearing along 

 the stem rather scattered widely ovate leaves about 3-4 mm. 



