Webera.] BRYACE^. 219 



yellow ; cilia binate and ternate, perfect. — Bryum crudum^ 

 Schreb. 1. c. 83 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 348 ; Sulliv. 1. c. 

 Hab. Fissures of rocks, on mountains ; not rare. 



* * * Floioers dioecious. 



8. W. sphagnicola, Schimp. Plants solitary or a few to- 

 gether, in tufts of k>phaynum ; stems dark ])urple, very long and 

 slender, branching : lower leaves very distant, small, ovate- 

 acuminate, entire, the upper gradually longer and tufting, 

 linear-lanceolate, serrate at the apex, glossy : male plant shorter 

 and smaller ; perigonia subdiscoid ; antheridia disposed in jjairs 

 in the axils of the perigonial leaves : capsule inclined, oblong or 

 obovate, pyriform, pale brown ; pedicel very long. — Coroll. 66. 

 Bryum sijhaynicola^ Bruch <fe Schimp., Bryol. Eur. t. 349. 



Hab. In peat bogs of a small valley near the top of Mount Marcy in 

 the Adirondack Mountains (Lesquereitx). 



W. ScHiMPEKi, Schimp. {Bryum ScJdmjieri, Muell. Syn. i. 3.34), a 

 species very similar to W. nutans, differing merely in its reddish color, 

 smaller leaves with a denser areolation, the dicecious inflorescence, and 

 small peristome, is recorded from Greenland in Schimp. Syn. ed. 2, 400. 



9. W. annotina, Schwaegr. Loosely cespitose ; stems 

 short, simple or emitting from the base slender more or less 

 elongated branchlets, bulbiterous : lower leaves and branch- 

 leaves small, lanceolate, not decurrent, gradually larger and 

 closer upward ; comal leaves longer, linear-lanceolate, serrate at 

 the apex, reflexed in the middle, purplish at the solid base ; 

 costa strong, percurrent : male flowers thick, many-leaved ; 

 antheridia and paraphyses axillary: capsule oval, somewhat long- 

 necked, inclined on a reddish pedicel ; teeth yellowish ; seg- 

 ments carinate and cleft ; cilia perfect. — Spec. Muse. 52. 

 Brytan annotinuin, Hedw. Spec. Muse. 183, t. 43 ; Bryol. Eur. 

 t. 353 ; Sulliv. 1. c. 



Hab. Moimtains of New England {Oakes, James). 



10. W. DrumrQOndii. Plants small, loosely cespitose, 

 radiculose and ferruginous below, greenish above; stems slender, 

 sim]-»le or branching by innovations from the apex, purplish 

 below the leaves : stem-leaves small, distant, more densely 

 crowded at the top of the fertile plants, ovate-lanceolate, cari- 

 nate-concave, sometimes purplish at base ; borders slightly 

 reflexed, obscurely denticulate at the apex ; costa strong, green, 

 thick and coherent at base, dissolving at the apex : capsule hori- 



