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Grlmmia.] BRYACEyE. 141 



or apiculate Avith a very short pellucid point by the percurrent 

 costa, entire or slightly crenulate at the apex : capsule OA'ate- 

 oblong, very obscurely striate, emergent on a somewhat long 

 arcuate pedicel ; teeth lanceolate, nearly entire, sj^lit or per- 

 forated near the apex only ; columella persisting after the 

 dehiscence of the lid as a subulate point longer than the teeth, 

 naked or filaiuentose when young ; lid and calyptra as in G. 

 trichopkijlla ; annulus narrow, of a simple row of cells. — G. 

 ancistrodes, Lesq. Mem. Calif. Acad. i. 13. 



Hac. On rocks, Dardanelles Canon {Bolander) ; Alclerney, Marin Co., 

 California ( Watson). 



A fine species, differing from G. Californica in the scarcely hair- 

 pointed leaves, the oval-oblong capsule without a distinct collum and 

 scarcely plicate when dry, the persistent columella, and the narrow 

 simple annulus. It is probably the moss figured by Sullivant in Pacif. R. 

 Rep. iv. t. 4, figs, l*" and 3.^, on which he remarks (page 187) that it repre- 

 sents a variety differing from the typical forms of G. Californica in the 

 strong abrupt recurvations of the leaves. The characters mentioned 

 above show it to be distinct from G. Californica, as well as from G. ancis- 

 trodes, to which it has been referred. 



16. G. trichophylla, Grev. Plants soft, loosely tufted, 

 yellowish green : leaves open, flexuous, slightly crisped when 

 dry, the lower lanceolate, shortly awn-pointed, the upper oblong 

 at base, linear-lanceolate ui)ward to a long nearly smooth 

 diaphanous point, carinate-concave, borders recurved toward 

 the base ; cells of the areolation transversely oval, rectangular 

 toward the apex, linear-sinuous toward the base, the marginal 

 quadrate ; jierichretial leaves three, broad-oblong, sheathing to 

 the middle, abruptly narrowed, lanceolate-subulate : capsule 

 elliptical, 8-costate, thin, yellowish brown, horizontal or declined 

 upon a long curved pedicel, flexuous and nearly erect when 

 dry ; lid with a long straight beak ; teeth long, irregularly 

 bifid to the middle, or lanceolate-subulate and more or less dis- 

 tinctly split along the divisnral line, red, connivent in a cone 

 when dry ; annulus large, com])ound, falling in fragments. — 

 Scot. Crypt. Fl. t. 100 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 244. 



Var. meridionalis, Schimp. Plants longer, more densely 

 tufted, slender : leaves shorter, with a longer hair-point : cap- 

 sule smaller, subglobose, less distinctly costate ; teeth smaller. 

 — Syn. 213. G. ancistrodes, Mont. 



Hau. On erratic blocks, both the normal form and the variety, Cali- 

 fornia (Biyelow, Bolander, Palmer, B. W. James). 



