230 BRYACE^. [Bryum. 



16. B. torquescens, Bruch & Schimi^. Plants sliort, 

 loosely cespitose ; stems radiculose, simi^le or fastigiately ramu- 

 lose : stem- and branch-leaves distant, long-lanceolate, compli- 

 cate-carinate, recurved or reflexed on the borders, the comal 

 close, oblong-lanceolate, concave, all entire, surrounded by a 

 narrow border; costa reddish, excurrent into a smooth sharp 

 point, twisted to the left when dry : capsule inclined and pend- 

 ent, long-obconical, blood-red or reddish brown, solid; lid 

 highly convex, acutely mamillate, dark purple, shhiing. — Bryol. 



Eur. t. 358. 



Hab. Dry rocky or gravelly places, Texas ( Wright) ; Oakland, Cali- 

 fornia {Bigeloiu); Nevada (Watson); etc. 



17. B. provinciale, Philib. Loosely cespitose ; stems short, 

 divided by few innovations, radiculose at base: branch-leaves 

 few, distant, smaller, ovate-lanceolate, the upper crowded in 

 tufts, spreading when moist, loosely appressed and undulate 

 when dry, ovate-oblong, concave, acuminate or cuspidate by the 

 excurrent stout reddish costa; borders narrowly recurved from 

 the middle to the base, plane, minutely serrate toward the apex ; 

 inner or perichsetial leaves smaller, lanceolate, longer pointed; 

 borders revolute or broadly reflexed to near the apex : flowers 

 partly bisexual, the fertile always unisexual; vaginule thick, 

 covered with abortive archegonia and paraphyses : capsule 

 oblique or pendent, on a reddish pedicel, obconical-pyriform, 

 brown-orange ; lid highly convex, apiculate ; teeth yellow up to 

 the middle, hyaline above ; segments cleft ; cilia long-appendicu- 

 late; annulus large, revoluble. — Schimp. Syn. ed. 2, 432. H. 

 BiUarderii, Bruch. & Schimp. Bryol. Eur. t. 366. B. Canari- 

 ense, Brid. ; Schwaegr. Suppl. iii., t. 214:^ 



Hab. Caiion on Monte Diablo, California (Bolander); Florida (Gar- 

 6e?-, J. Donnell Smith, Chapman). 



18. B. Oreganum, Sulliv. Densely cespitose ; stems and 

 innovations very short, gemmiform : leaves crowded into a 

 subglobose tuft, oblong or obovate-oblong, pointed, serrate 

 above ; borders margined and reflexed ; costa extending to the 

 point ; areolation rather loose ; perichsetial leaves elongated- 

 oblong, long-pointed with a subexcurrent costa ; capsule sub- 

 pendent, on a slender pedicel 3 to 5 cm. long, clavate, oblong, 

 straight or slightly curved, constricted below the mouth when 

 dry; lid rather small, hemispherical, apiculate; teeth closely 

 articulate ; segments broad, cleft ; cilia 2, strongly and conspic- 



