Conomitrium.] BRYACE^. 89 



subpyriform, gradually much enlarged at the orifice ; lid ros- 

 trate from a hemispherical base ; teeth broad and long ; annulus 

 large, revoluble. — Muse. Fi-ond. iii. 63, t. 27 ; Sulliv. & Lesq. 

 Muse. Bor.-Am. (ed. 1), n. 27 ; Sulliv. Icon. Muse. 43, t. 27 ; 

 Mitten, Journ. Linn. Soc. xii. 585. 



Hab. Louisiana (Drummond) j Florida [Chapman); moist rocks, 

 Georgia [Lesquereux); sterile. 



24. F. grandifrons, Brid. Plants large, dark green, fas- 

 ciculate-branching from the base, rigid or pendent ; branches 

 short, radiculose: leaves numerous, equal throughout, thick, 

 composed of multiple layers of cells, with a thick costa 

 vanishing below the apex, rigid, entire, the borders of the auri- 

 cles only minutely crenulate : flowers axillary ; archegonia 

 numerous : fruit unknown. — Muse. Recent. Suppl. i. 170 ; 

 Bryol. Eur. t. 106. 



Hab. "Wet limestone rocks near waterfalls ; abundant below Niagara 

 Falls; found also in California (Bolander), Nevada ( Watson), etc. 



26. CONOMITRIUM, Mont. (PI. 1.) 

 Plants slender, filiform, fasciculate-ramose, branching from 

 innovations the whole length of the stems, or from the base 

 only, floating. Leaves distant, linear-lanceolate, short-auriculate. 

 Flowers monoecious, terminal, on more or less elongated branch- 

 lets, the male axillary; fruits (cladogenous) on young shoots, 

 often numerous on the same plants. Calyj^tra minute, conical, 

 solid, covering only the beak of the lid. Capsule short-pedicel- 

 late, fragile, erect, very small. Operculum conical-beaked. 

 Teeth laciniate or entire. Annulus none. 



1. 0. Julianum, Mont. Leaves long, the lamina ending 

 at the auricles and three times as long : male flowers sometimes 

 aggregate ; perigonium of two or three leaves : calyptra neax-ly 

 black, erose or lacerate at base : capsule oblong-ovate, greenish, 

 soft, red at the orifice, gradually narrowed to a short green 

 pedicel, very fragile at its base ; lid as long as the capsule ; 

 teeth short, irregularly laciniate or perforate above the middle, 

 yellowish at base, pellucid. — Ann. Sci. Nat. 2 ser. viii. 250. 

 Fontinalis Juliana, Savi. OctocUceras Julianum, Brid. Bryol. 

 Univ. ii. 678 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 108. 



Hab. On stones and branches in wooded creeks and swamps. 



