ScJilotheinia.] BRTACE.'E. I79 



calyptra and the absence of a peristome, this species closely 

 resembles the last. It differs in the larger distinctly ribbed 

 capsule, the leaves longer and not as deeply concave in the 

 middle near the base, the shorter conical blunt lid, and the 

 shorter pedicel covered to its middle by the exserted vaginule 

 having its orifice fringed by long j^araphyses as in Jf. hjcopodi- 

 oides, Schwaegr. The plant also appears to be dicecious, as no 

 male flowers could be found upon the specimens. 

 Hac. On trees, Florida (C H. Fitzgerald). 



3. M. rhabdoca.rpum, Mitt. Monojcious: stem creeping, 

 inordinately branching, loosely cespitose : leaves crisj^ate when 

 dry, spreading-open and slightly flexuose when moist, linear- 

 lanceolate, acute or obtuse and subapiculate, flat on the minutely 

 crenulate borders, carinate by the percurrent yellowish costa; 

 biiiiilar cells oblong, the up23er round, papillose ; perichaatial 

 leaves erect, lanceolate, narrower and more acute at the apex : 

 calyptra slightly hairy, straw-color, covering the caj^sule to the 

 base : capsule oval, gradually narrowed to the petiole and to the 

 orifice, distinctly plicate ; lid subulate ; peristome simple, the 

 teeth short, pale and fragile. — Journ. Linn. Soc. xii. 199; 

 Austin, Coult. Bot. Gaz. ii. 110. 



Hab. St. Augustine, Florida {J. Donnell Smith). 



4. M. mucronifolium, Hook. & Grev. Monoecious: stems 

 creeping, with short crowded branches : leaves oj^en-spreading, 

 linear-lanceolate, rounded in narrowing to a recurved acumen, 

 carinate by the thick costa, entire, convex, rugulose lengthwise; 

 upper cells minute, round, obscure, the lower a little elongated 

 on the borders : calyptra narrowly conical, covering the capsule 

 to the base: capsule shortly pedicelled, nrceolate, the orifice 

 naked. — Brewst. Edin. Journ, i. 116, t. 4; Mitt. Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. xii. 202. 



Hab. Trunks of palms, St. Johns Kiver, Florida (C II. Fitzgerald). 



58. SOHLOTHEIMIA, Brid. (PI. 2.) 

 Differs from llacromitrium in the campanulate calyptra, not 

 plicate, and constricted at base by the involute segments, and 

 in the teeth of the outer peristome 16, spirally revolute, marked 

 by a longitudinal black line, generally very rugose, fleshy, 

 the inner more or less perfect, often rudimentary, from a pale 



