OctoblepJiarum.] BRYACE.E. 91 



Hab. Eoots of trees, mossy damp places in woods, borders of swamps; 

 not rare. Fruiting in winter or early spring. 



2. L. minus, Sulliv. Plants more slender, scarcely half as 

 long as in the last species : leaves shorter, more crowded : 

 caj^sule smaller and 2>edicel shorter. — Mosses of U. States, 24. 

 X. mdgare, var. mmus, Hampe, 1. c. 



Hab. Roots of trees in swamps, more generally on tlie ground in dry 

 woods. 



Fruiting from June to August, according to latitude. The time of the 

 ripening of the fruit is the most marked difference between this and the 

 preceding species. 



3. L. sediforme, Muell. Plants with few branches : loaves 

 very short, densely imbricate, subsquarrose, exactly eight- 

 ranked, lanceolate-acute, very concave, entire, margined to 

 above the middle ; perichoetial leaves much longer and nar- 

 rower, long-exserted, convolute : capsule long-pedicellate, short, 

 slightly strumose. — Syn. i. 75 * Mitten, Journ. Linn. Soc. xii. 

 111. 



Hab. Florida (E. Palmer). 



28. OOTOBLEPHARUM, Hedw. 

 Plants densely cespitose. Leaves thick ; costa broadly enlarged 

 at base. Calyptra dimidiate. Capsule erect. Teeth of the peri- 

 stome 8, short, broadly lanceolate, pale yellow, diaphanous. 



1. O. albidum, Hedw. Stem-leaves coriaceous, recurved 

 when dry, broadly margined, lingulate-oblong, obtuse or ajjicu- 

 late, denticulate at the apex, unequally alate at base : capsule 

 oval, short-pedicellate, erect ; lid plane at base, obliquely subu- 

 late-beaked. — Muse. Frond, iii. 15, t. 6 ; Muell. Syn. i. 86 ; 

 Mitten, Journ. Linn. Soc. xii. 109. 



Hab. Florida; not rare. 



SuBTRiBE HI. CERATODONTE^. 



Plants cespitose. Leaves linear-lanceolate, subtilate, clasping 

 at the base, spreading to every side or distichous, strongly cos- 

 tate to the apex ; areolation elongated and pellucid at the base. 

 Capsule ovate, erect or inclined, on a long slender pedicel. 

 Teeth of the i^eristome bifid to near the base ; segments long, 

 equal, strongly articulate, or shorter and irregularly divided. 



