190 BKYACE^, [Dissodon, 



tliiclc columella; teeth short, truncate, bifid or perforate along 

 tlie clivisural line, yellow. — Edinb. Mem. Wern. Soc. iii. 121 ; 

 Bryol. Eur. t. 281 . Systylium splachnoides, Hornsch., Regensb. 

 Flora (1820), iii. 180. 

 Hab. Twin Lakes, Colorado; Oregon (Doionie). 



2. D. Frcelichianus, Grev. & Arn. 1. c. In loose tufts: 

 leaves oblong and Ungulate, obtuse or blunt at the apex, con- 

 cave, gradually larger and 'loosely imbricate from the base of 

 the stems to the top, pale green, very thin : male and female 

 flowers on separate innovations or bisexual : capsule erect or sub- 

 cernuous, obovate-pyriform with a collura as long as the sporan- 

 gium, dark orange, becoming spherical and compressed when 

 deoperculate ; pedicel 1^ cm. long, twisted to the left when 

 dry ; lid conical, obtuse ; columella contracted into the cap- 

 sule ; teeth linear-lanceolate, approximate in pairs. — Bryol. 

 Eur. t. 282. /Splachmcm Froelichianum, Hedw. Muse. Frond, 

 iii. 99, t. 40. 



Hab. Eocky Mountains (Drummond, E. Hall). 



3. D. splachnoides, Grev. & Am. 1. c. Plants large, in 

 loose tufts, green above, blackish within : leaves gradually 

 larger upward from the base of the innovations, oblong or 

 obovate or Ungulate : capsule long-pedicellate, erect, oval, with 

 an inflated collum perforated with stomata, orange-colored, 

 globose-turbinate when dry and empty; lid convex-conical, 

 obtuse, often persistent upon the columella ; teeth long, linear- 

 lanceolate, yellow, equidistant, — Bryol. Eur. t. 283. Weisia 

 splachnoides, Schwaegr, Suppl. i. 63, t. 17. Ereinodon sp)lach- 

 noides, Brid. Bryol. Univ. i. 234. Weisia turbinata, Drumm. 

 Muse. Amcr. n. 64. 



Hab. Marshy spots near York Factory (Drummond). 



67. TAYLORIA, Hook. 

 Plants in loose tufts, dichotomous by innovations, radiculose. 

 Leaves open, erect, spatulate, sharply acuminate, coarsely and 

 obtusely dentate above. Teeth of the peristome 16, attached 

 far below the orifice, entire or bifid, linear-lanceolate or loricate, 

 very long and hygroscopical, connivent when moistened, re- 

 flexed and appressed to the capsule or circinate-pendent when 

 dry. Spores very small, green or yellow. 



