110 BRYACE^. [Trichostomim. 



ferruginous in the lower part : lower leaves small, distant, erect, 

 the upper tufted, open, oblong and whitish at base, linear- 

 lanceolate, imdulate, concave or subcarinate above, raucronate 

 by the thick excurrent costa, entire ; perichretial leaves similar : 

 capsule oblong, cylindrical, erect, yellowish, with a red orifice, 

 slightly sulcate when dry, of thin texture ; pedicel comparatively 

 long, straight or flexuous, yellowish ; lid conical-rostrate, 

 slightly inclined ; teeth long, slender, filiform, nearly equal, 

 scarcely articulate, purple ; basilar membrane narrow. — 

 Regensb. Fl. xii. 404, t. 7; Bryol. Eur. t. 172. 



Var. crassinerve. Plants shorter: leaves narrower; 

 costa thick, vanishing below or at the apex : teeth of the i^ei-i- 

 stome whitish. — T. crassinerve, Ilampe, Linnoea, xxx. 456. 



Hab. Florida, on the ground (I>. B. Smith, Garber, J. Donnell 

 Smith); the variety near San Rafael, and in the mountains of California 

 (Bigelow, Bauer, Bolande'r). 



5. T. flexipes, Bruch & Schimp. Stems short, 4 to 6 m.m. 

 long, branching by innovations : leaves linear, acuminate, undu- 

 late on the borders, serrate upward ; costa white, shining, per- 

 current : capsule narrowly oblong-ovate, chestnut-color, on a 

 flexuous or curved pedicel ; lid conical-rostrate ; teeth straight, 

 equal, regulai-ly bifid ; annulus large, revoluble. — Bryol. Eur. 

 t. 171. 



Hab. On the ground, California {Bigelow, Bolander) ; common. 



6. T. anomalum, Schimp. Plants loosely cespitose, 1 to 

 4 cm. long: leaves linear-lanceolate to the point, serrate 

 above, more or less distinctly papillose on the inner surface : 

 male flowers in separate or aggregated buds : capsule oblong, 

 cylindrical or rarely slightly curved, erect on a long flexuous 

 reddish pedicel ; teeth long, equal, erect, strict, dark red ; 

 annulus large, easily detached. — Bryol. Eur. Coroll. 28. J^ar- 

 hula anomala, Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Eur. t. 109. 



Hab. California [Coulter, B. W. James); Florida (Garber). 



43. DESMATODON, Brid. (PI. 2.) 



Plants sparingly branching, radiculose at base or tomentose 

 their whole length. Leaves ovate or obovate, oblong, blunt, 

 apiculate or gradually acuminate, costate ; areolation close, 

 opaque, papillose and chlorophyllose in the upper part, loose 



