440 REMARKS ON DRUMMONd's MUSCI AMERICANI. 



220. H. monilifornie. — The peristome is that of a Leskea. 



224. H. erediim, nov. sp. — This is most probably Leskea 

 acumiriata, Hedw. Sp. J^I. t. 56. 



223. H. toiax, not of Hedwig, but a true Leskea^ with a 

 short erect capsule; it is perhaps an undescribed species. 



232. Fontinalis antipyretica. — This a large var. of F. squa- 

 mosa. 



233. F. squamosa. — The specimens here given have 

 sharply connate leaves, and must therefore be referred to 

 F. antipyretica. 



234. F. capillacea. — Certainly not that species, but F.fal- 

 cata, Hedv/. Muse. Frond, v. iii. t. 24. — Leaves linear-lance- 

 olate, carinate, the nerve ceasing below the apex. — Perichae- 

 tial leaves extending beyond the base of the capsule. 



236. Funaria Muhlenbergii. — The specimens here given 

 are considerably unlike the British Moss so called, having 

 the leaves spreading and much narrower, like those of Entos^ 

 thodon Templeioni^ which the Moss now under consideration 

 greatly resembles. It comes nearest to F. Fontanesii of any 

 described species, but the leaves are very much acuminated. 



244. Bryum triquetrum. — Possibly two species may have 

 been here confounded ; at least, some of the specimens pre- 

 sent a very singular structure of the peristome, not easily de- 

 scribed in words : the outer peristome is united to the inner 

 in such a manner that there are seen, in a section of the whole 

 peristome, a series of elliptical spaces formed apparently by 

 the revolute matins of the outer teeth beintj so much bent 

 as to be in contact. In other specimens the outer teeth are 

 perfectly free and of the usual shape. 



249. B. dealbatum. — This species usually described as 

 having serrated leaves, has them entire in all the numerous 

 specimens examined, both British and foreign. 



257. B. spinosmn — Some of the specimens are probably 

 correctly named, having the leaf broadly elliptical, the bor- 

 der cartilaginous and beset with a double row of spinules, as 

 in B. marginatum^ No. 259. Other specimens belong to B, 

 affine. 



