Bryum,] BRYACE^. 233 



24. B. versicolor, Al. Braun. Mode of growth as in £. 

 atropicrpureum ; branches rigid, densely foliate: leaves ei-ect- 

 spreading, ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate by the thick brown ex- 

 current costa ; boi'ders entire, slightly revolute : capsule abrupt- 

 ly pendent, on a rigid pedicel, round-oval, with a short hemi- 

 spherical collum, reddish, much smaller when dry, broad- 

 mouthed when deoperculate, constricted between collum and 

 sporangium ; lid large, convex-apiculate. — Bryol. Eur. t. 379. 



Hab. Florida (D. B. Smith) ; rare. 



25. B. alpinum, Linn. Densely and widely cespitose : 

 plants chestnut-colored or purplish brown, shining, robust, short 

 and erect, or long and decumbent below, radiculose at the base 

 only, densely and equally foliate : leaves erect, rigid, lanceolate 

 or oblong-lanceolate ; costa stout, purplish, excurrent into a 

 short point, entire or obscurely serrate at the apex ; borders re- 

 flexed in the middle : capsule j^endent, ovate-oblong or obconi- 

 cal-pyriform, its somewhat long collum gradually attenuated 

 into the pedicel, solid, blood-red or dark purple when old, 

 slightly constricted under the orifice ; lid mammiform ; outer 

 peristome ferruginous : spores yellowish green. — Mant. Alt. 

 309 ; Bryol. Eur t. 380. 



Hab. White Mountains {Oakes, James). 



26. B. Muhlenbeckii, Bruch & Schimp. Closely resem- 

 bles the preceding, differing in the olive-green color of the 

 tufts, the leaves broadei-, long-elliptical, deeply concave, loosely 

 areolate, more or less obtuse and cucullate at the apex, borders 

 reflexed all around : capsule chestnut-colored, not ])urplish. — 

 Bryol. Eur. t. 381. H. Mmd, Aust. in Coult. Bot. Gaz. ii. 110. 



Hab. New Mexico {Palmer)', Belleville, Ontario, Canada (Macoun). 



27. B. miniatum, Lesq. Densely cespitose, yellowish 

 green and purplish ; stems radiculose, slender, long and mostly 

 simple or dividing by nearly filiform innovations from under the 

 floral buds : leaves appressed when dry, loosely imbricate, the 

 upper more crowded but not tufted, concave, ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, scarcely or not at all margined or reflexed 

 on the borders ; costa stout, vanishing below the apex ; cells 

 polygonal, solid or thick-walled ; perichaetial leaves slightly 

 longer and narrower : capsule inclined, obovate-oblong, slightly 

 constricted under the orifice when dry, purplish-fawn color ; lid 

 convex or conical, apiculate. — Mem. Calif. Acad. i. 23. 



