Siylachmim.] BRTACE^. 193 



discoid, capituliform, terminal on sej^arate smaller more slender 

 plants, or gemmiforni and axillary on the fertile ones : ealyptra 

 conical, not split, scarcely covering the hemispherical-conical 

 obtusely ai)iculate lid : capsule oblong-oval, small, its apophysis 

 a little broader and longer than the sporangium, gradually 

 narrowed to a thick pedicel less than a cm. long; teeth joined 

 in pairs, attached near the orifice. — Muse. Bor.-Am. Exsicc. n. 

 151 ; Sulliv. Mosses of U. States, 53, t. 4, and Icon. Muse. 97, 

 t. 58. Splachniiyn setaceum^ Hook. & Wils. in Drumm. Muse. 

 Am. (Col. II.), n. 27. 



Hab. Swainps near the coast, from New Jersey to Florida; especially 

 common in cedar swamps on the dung of mules. Also found on Isle 

 Madam, Cape Breton [J. A. Allen). 



4. T. Tirceolatus, Bruch & Schimp. Tufts compact, solid, 

 yellowish green on the surface, pale brown or reddish and 

 densely radiculose Avithin : leaves loosely imbricated, oblong or 

 obovate, subcochleariform, abruptly narrowed into a flexuous 

 awn-shaped point, very entire ; eosta very narrow, ending below 

 the point ; cells rectangular, narroAV, thick-walled : male flowers 

 at first terminal, then thrown aside and lateral by innovations : 

 ealyptra comparatively large, split and laciniate at base, straw- 

 colored : capsule short, cylindrical, slightly longer than its broad 

 obovate apophysis, becoming broader and black with age, nar- 

 rowed to a thick short pedicel ; teeth short and geminate, narrow, 

 orange-colored. — Bryol. Eur. t. 209. 



Hab. Alpine regions of the Rocky Mountains (Drummond); Colorado 

 (Downie); rare. 



69. SPLAOHNUM, Linn. (PI. 4.) 

 Plants mostly annual, loosely cespitose ; branches soft, slender. 

 Lower leaves distant, open, the upper tufted, with a soft costa 

 and areolation very loose. Flowers dioecious, rarely monoecious, 

 tlie male terminal and discoid, on slender naked branches. 

 Calyptra small, conical, slightly split >or mostly entire at base, 

 soft and fugacious. Capsule long-pedicelled, small, oval or 

 short-cylindrical, or with a larger apophysis increasing after 

 maturity, becoming pyriform or globose or umbrella^shaped and 

 diversely colored. Columella capped, generally exserted after 

 the separation of the lid. Teeth of the peristome 16, linear, 



