96 BRYACE^. [Anodus. 



33. ANODUS, Bruch & Schimp. 

 Plants very short, gregarious, simple. Leaves lanceolate- 

 subulate, minutely serrate. Flowers monoecious, without para- 

 physes. Capsule erect, subturbinate, distinctly short-necked, 

 soft, thin, gymnostome, macrostome and exannulate ; pedicel 

 straight, comparatively long. Operculum large, short-beaked. 



1. A. Donianus, Bruch & Schimp. Leaves deeply canali- 

 culate, with a strong continuous nerve mostly composing the 

 apex ; basilar cells of the areolation rectangular, empty, the 

 upper quadrate, small, chlorophyllose. — Bryol. Eur. t. 109. 

 Gymnostomum Do7iianiim, Smith, Engl. Bot. 1. 1582. Seligeria 

 Doniana, Muell. Syn. i. 420 ; Braithw. Brit. Moss-Fl. i. 116, 

 t. 16, G. 



Hab. Limestone rocks, Little Falls, New York (C H. Peck)\ Owen 

 Somitl, Canada {Macoun). 



34. SELIGERIA, Bruch & Schimp. (PI. 1.) 

 Plants slightly more robust than in the last genus. Lower 

 leaves very small, distant, the upper abruptly tufted and much 

 longer, entire ; costa stronger upwards, semi-terete or canali- 

 culate. Capsule subglobose, of thick texture, tumid at the 

 collum, turbinate when empty. Lid large at the base, subulate- 

 beaked. Peristome of 16 broad solid teeth, linear-lanceolate, 

 obtuse or pointed, free to the base, smooth, orange, without 

 dividing lines, inflexed when moistened, reflexed when dry. 



1. S. pusilla, Bruch & Schimp. Plants very small, soft, 

 bright greeuj loosely cespitose : lower leaves narrowly lanceo- 

 late, the upper long, narrowly linear from a broader concave 

 base ; costa slender, vanishing below the apex, translucent ; 

 borders nearly entire, very narrow, distinct to near the apex ; 

 pericha3tial leaves half-clasping at base, lanceolate, subulate 

 above : male flowers terminal on separate branches or sessile 

 under the perichretium : capsule ribbed when dry, on a com- 

 paratively long strict yellowish pedicel ; lid oblique, subulate- 

 beaked. — Bryol. Eur. t. 110; Sulliv. Mosses of U. States, 80; 

 Braithw. Brit. Moss-Fl. i. 117, t. 16, H. Weisia 2^usilla, Hedw. 

 Muse. Frond, ii. 78, t. 29. 



