BrucJiia.] BRYACE^. 47 



especially in the shorter leaves, the perichsetial longer and more or less 

 tubulose, in the short beak and collum of the capsule, the thick pedicel, 

 etc. 



5. B. Beyriclliana, Muell. Stems short, simple : leaves 

 curved when dry, open-erect when moist, those of the stem nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, the comal gradually long-subulate from the 

 enlarged base, obscui-ely serrulate at the apex : flowers paroe- 

 cious : capsule solid, oblong, Math a short indistinct collum, 

 subimmersed, its top not surpassing the leaves ; pedicel short, 

 flexuous ; calyptra large, broadly laciniate, covei'ing the capsule 

 to its base. — Bot. Zeit. v. 99 ; Sulliv. Icon. Muse. Suppl. 25, 

 t. 15, partly made upon specimens of the next species. Sporle- 

 dera Heyrichiana, Hamj^e, Linnaea, xi. 279. Phascum Bey- 

 ricJiianum^ Schwaegr. Suppl. iv. t. 301. 



Hab. First found near Baltimore by Beyrich ; Burlington, New Jersey 

 {James); Illinois {Vasey). 



6. B. brevicollis, Lesq. & James. Differing from the last 

 in the longer-pedicellate emergent broadly oval capsule, with a 

 distinct collum defluent into the pedicel, in the shorter apiculate 

 calyptra reaching to the collum, and in the shorter leaves, 

 broader at base, and narrowed into a long entire awl-shaped 

 point entirely filled by the enlarged costa. — Proc. Am. Acad, 

 xiv. 135. 



Hab. Santee Canal, South Carolina (Bavenel). 



7. B. curviseta. Plants short : lower leaves small, lanceo- 

 late, the upper much longer, narrowly subulate from a short 

 broadly ovate base, denticulate at and near the apex ; costa 

 stout, filling the awl-shaped canaliculate point : flowers monoe- 

 cious : capsule emergent, ovate, with a distinct collum, abruptly 

 narrowed or truncate upon a somewhat long pedicel, which is 

 geniculate or abruptly curved in the middle ; lid short, acumi- 

 nate ; calyptra large, covering the capsule to below the middle, 

 smooth. — B. Vogesiaca, var. 2, Hook. & Wilson, Drumm, 

 Muse. Amer. (Coll. II.), n. 15, in part. 



Hab. Louisiana, near New Orleans (Drummond). 



Compared with B. bremcollis it differs in the leaves distinctly denticu- 

 late above, in the larger and shorter calyptra, the capsule truncate at base, 

 and the longer geniculate pedicel. 



8. B. Hallii, Aust. Plants small, gregarious, yellowish 

 green : stem ^ cent, long, slender, filiform : lower leaves small, 

 closely appressed, broadly ovate-acuminate, the upper longer, 



