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McKean : Bennett Brook, Bradford, November 7, 



1897, and Limestone Creek, Bradford, Oc- 

 tober to December, 1896. D. A. B. (Fig- 

 ured). The latter mixed with Grout's Xo. 

 134, North American Musci Pleurocarpi. 



2. Anomodon minor (Hedwig) Fuernrohr. 



(Neckcra viticulosa var. minor Hedwig; A. obtusifolins Bryo- 

 logia Europ?ea). 



(Plate XXXIV) 



Loosely widely cespitose, glaucous-green, brownish when 

 old : primary stems creeping, flagellate, robust, with numerous, 

 more or less erect, secondary stems and branches usually up 

 to height of 2-4 cm. ; leaves somewhat complanate, broadly 

 lingulate-obtuse from a broadly ovate base, thick, opaquely 

 chlorophyllose, entire, very densely papillose on both sides ; 

 costa pellucid, rather strong, vanishing below apex ; leaf-cells 

 minute, about .009-.012 mm., rounded-hexagonal, the median 

 basal elongate and non-papillose, the alar scarcely different 

 from the upper ; pericfcetial leaves sheathing : seta erect, about 

 1 cm. high, sinistrorse ; capsule erect, castaneous, about 2 mm. 

 long, symmetric, oblong-cylindric, about 3:1, the mouth small; 

 lid conic-acuminate, about two-fifths as long as urn ; annulus 

 present, large ; peristome-teeth narrowly lance-linear, hyaline, 

 faintly papillose, about 8-10-nodose-articulate, the divisural 

 and dorsal lamellae very faint or not visible, the segments very 

 short or rudimentary, or none, from a very low basal mem- 

 brane; exothecial cells rather thin-walled, irregularly quadrate 

 to oblong-rectangular ; spores maturing in late fall or in win- 

 ter, medium to thin-walled, brownish, papillose, .009-.012 mm. 

 in diameter. 



On rocks and trees, in woods, usually at the base of trees ; 

 Asia and from New Brunswick to Virginia and westward to 

 South Dakota. Probably rather common in our region. 



Allegheny : Xear Montrose, September 21, 1905. 



O. E. J. 



Cambria : T. P. James. (Porter's Catalogue). 



Clearfield : Phillipsburg. T. P. James. (Porter's 



Catalogue ). 



McKean : Lewiston Creek, November 21, 1897. 



D. A. B. (Figured). 



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



3. Anomodon viticulosus [Linnaeus] Hooker and Taylor. 



Large, widely tufted, dark green above, yellowish within: 

 terns creeping, long, sending up secondary stems and 

 branches, the secondary stems sometimes becoming more or 

 less geniculate by repeated innovations: leaves more or less 



