184 BRYACE^. [Calymperes. 



the teeth, adhering to the middle to a broad punctuhate mem- 

 brane.— Spec. Muse. 62, t. 10; Bryol. Eur. t. 204. 



Hab. Brilibli America (Dnunmond); Alleghany Mountaius (SulUvant); 

 Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania {Porter); New Jersey lEau); California 

 (Lapha}n). Not yet found fruiting in America. 



60. CALYMPERES, Swartz. 

 Plants small, sj^aringly branched. Leaves soft. Calyptra 

 twisted, persistent, plicate, constricted at base and enclosing the 

 capsule. Capsule erect and exserted. Peristome none. 



1. 0. Richardi, Muell. Dioecious: plants loosely cespitose ; 

 stems short and slender, nearly simple : leaves spreading when 

 moist, oblong, obtuse, very entire, with a strong costa vanishing 

 at the apex but often enlarged, thick and covered with articulate 

 filaments at its point : calyptra yellow, slightly scabrous at the 

 apex : capsule short-pedicellate, oval ; lid short, straight, conical, 

 subulate. — Syn. i. 524. 



Var. Donnellii. Leaves longer and narrower, flexuous and 

 erect or 023en, sjjreading when dry. — C. Donnellii, Aust., Coult, 

 Bot. Gaz. iv. 151. C. Hichardi, Aust. Muse. Appal. Suppl. 

 n. 489. 



Hab. On trunks. Florida {Garber, Aristin, J. Donnell Smltli); the 

 variety from the same locality {J. Donnell Smith). 



2. 0. disciforme, Muell. Plants subcespitose, rigid, 

 nearly simple, dirty green : leaves rigid, o])en, spreading when 

 moist, the lower large, oblong, more or less convolute, mucronate 

 by the excurrent costa, the upper broadly ovate, acute with a 

 thick percurrent costa, bearing in the middle a dense cluster of 

 articulate and fasciculate filanients; upper areolation minute 

 and minutely papillose, the basilar large, quadrate, hyaline at 

 tlie margin: calyptra very scabrous upon the folds and at the 

 apex : capsule short-pedicellate, oval ; lid conical, oblique. — 

 Linn^a, xxi. 183, and Syn. i. 525. 



Hab. Caloosa, Florida {Austin). 



3. 0. (?) crispum, Aust. Plants short, in compact tufts, 

 brown inside, yellowish green at the surface : leaves strongly 

 crispate when dry, strict and suberect when moist, thin at the 

 narrowed base, narrowly panduriform. Ungulate, flat, papillose, 

 rctuse or obtuse at the apex, hyaline-margined and loosely 

 quadrate-areolate in the lower part, very densely granulose- 



