-[g3 BilYACEaE. [ScJdotheunla. 



colored membrane. Capsule exannulate. Lid cupuliform, 

 subulate, thin. 



1. S. Sullivantii, Muell. Plants in dense widely expanded 

 depressed yellowish green tufts ; primary stems creeping, 

 densely ramose : branches very sliort, erect, fasciculate-ramose, 

 closely joined together by a thick felt of brown radicles : leaves 

 very close, recurved-spreading. Ungulate, short-mucronate by 

 the excurrent thick costa, ventricose and a little plicate at base ; 

 surface undulate-wrinkled toward the apex ; cells round-hexago- 

 nal, minute, in transverse rows, the basilar loose, oblong : flowers 

 monfficious, the male lateral, in open short pedicellate buds: 

 calyptra covering the whole capsule, scabrous at the apex, 5-6- 

 lobate at base, the lobes incurved and connivent : capsule 

 cylindrical-oblong, gradually narrowed up to the orifice, emergent 

 on a pedicel about a half cm. long ; teeth 16, linear, with hyaline 

 articulations ; cilia 16, orange color, punctulate, striolate ; basilar 

 membrane none or scarcely visible. — Syn. i. 756 ; Sulliv. Mosses 

 of U. States, 35, t. 2, and Icon. Muse. 61, t. 38. S. rupfolia, 

 Hook. & Wils. in Drumm. Muse. Am. (Col. II.), n. 85. 



Hab. Bark of trees in the iSouthern States; not rare. 



59. ENOALYPTA, Schreb. (PL 2.) 

 Plants loosely cespitose. Leaves large. Ungulate or spatulate ; 

 ceUs of the areolation thick, chlorophyllose, covered in the upper 

 part of the leaves with large divided papillae, loose, rectangular, 

 sometimes reddish brown in the lower part. Flowers monoe- 

 cious or dioecious, terminal. Vaginule cylindrical, capped by 

 a conical membrane. Calyptra very large, cylindrical, cam- 

 panulate. Capsule emergent on a solid pedicel, erect, regular, 

 ribbed or twisted when dry. Peristome none, or simple, or 

 double, very variable. Spores generaUy large, verruculose. — 

 Leersia, Hedw.; Lindb. Syst. 



* Peristome none. 



1 E. COmmutata, Nees & Hornsch. Stems about one 

 cm. long : leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the upper longer- 

 cuspidate by the excurrent costa, slightly transversely plicate in 

 the middle; basilar cells narrowly oblong, yellowish: male 



