232 BRYACE^. [Bryum. 



* * * Floioers dioecious. 

 •J- 3fale floioers gemmiform. 



21. B. erythrocarpum, Schwaegr. Plants short, simple, 

 or with few branches : leaves erect, distant, open, rigid, ovate- 

 lanceolate or lanceolate, denticulate at the apex or entire, cus- 

 pidate by the excurrent costa ; borders slightly reflexed : cap- 

 sule inclined or pendent, oblong or obconical, pyriforra, blood- 

 red ; lid highly convex, apiculate ; teeth pale, ferruginous ; seg- 

 ments whitish yellow. — Suppl. i. 2. 100, t. 70 ; Bryol. Eur. 

 t. 376. -Z>. sayiguineum, Brid. Muse. Recent. Suppl. iii. 28 ; 

 Sulliv. Mosses of U. States, 46. 



Hab. Mountains of Nortlieni Alabama {Lesquereux) ; rare. 



22. B. atropurpureum, Wahl. Loosely cespitose; stems 

 radiculose up to the base of the fertile tufts : lower leaves dis- 

 tant, ovate-lanceolate, the upper crowded, tufting, much longer, 

 ovate-acuminate, apiculate by the excurrent costa, concave, 

 very entire ; borders reflexed toward the base ; ai-eolation 

 loose : male plants slender : capsule turgid at the rugulose 

 collum, broadly oval, blood-red or dark purple when old ; j^edi- 

 cel flexuous, arched above ; lid enlarging above the orifice of 

 the capsule, hemispherical and apiculate, bright red and shining; 

 teeth reddish at base; segments yellowish. — Web. & Mohr, 

 Ind. Muse. 360 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 378. JD, erxjthrocarpon^ Brid. 

 1. c. iii. 18. 



Hab. Sandy soil; Lookout Mountain, Alabama [Lesquereux)\ Buf- 

 falo, New York (G. W. Clinton); Pennsylvania (James); Illinois (Hall); 

 Nevada (Watson). 



23. B. coronatum, Schwaegr. Loosely tufted, tomentose 

 within, bright green on the surface ; branches slender, soft, 

 loosely foliate : leaves erect-spreading, oblong-lanceolate, mu- 

 cronate or long-cuspidate by the excurrent thin costa ; borders 

 flat, entire ; perichistial leaves enlarged at base, abruptly lanceo- 

 late : capsule pendent and torulose, rugulose at base ; lid large, 

 conical or highly convex-apiculate, thick on the borders, j^urple, 

 shining. — Suppl. i. 2. 103, t. 71 ; Muell. Syn. i. 307. 



Hab. Florida (D. B. Smith, Garher, J. Donnell Smith). 



The areolation of the leaves is like that of B. carneum. The capsule 

 resembles that of the last species, but is thick and fleshy, abrupt and 

 crown-like at the insertion of the pedicel; peristome of the same char- 

 acter, A fine species. 



