238 BRYACEJE. [Brtjim. 



orifice ; lid mammiform, sinning, yellow ; teeth closely articu- 

 late, ferruginous ; segments pale yellow. — Muse. Suec. 47, 

 t. 4 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 373. 



Hab. Wet places on mountains; New Hampshire (James); White 

 Face Mountain, in the Adirondacks (C. H. Peck). 



Variable in the size of the plants, the length of the pedicel, and the 

 form of the capsule. 



^- •»- Male flowers suhdiscoid. 



37. B. Duvalii, Voit. In very loose soft purplish green 

 tufts ; stems long, erect when young, decumbent when old, 

 slender, as are also the few very long innovations, radiculose at 

 the base only : leaves distant, open or reflexed, nearly equal, 

 broadly ovate-lanceolate, long-decurrent, plane on the entire 

 borders, loosely areolate, much contracted when dry ; costa 

 vanishing below the apex ; inner perichastial leaves lanceolate, 

 erect : capsule on a long slender pedicel, sometimes longer than 

 the innovations, obovate-oblong, regular, pendent, constricted 

 under the orifice when dry ; lid convex, uniform in color. — 

 Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. ii. t. ; Bryol. Eur. t. 371. 



Hab. Mountains of New England ( Oakes, etc. ) ; Canada, New Mexico, 

 California, Oregon, etc. ; not common. 



38. B. pseudotriquetrum, Schwaegr. Plants widely 

 cespitose or pulvinate, robust, olive or greenish yellow ; stems 

 sparingly branching, tomentose to the apex : leaves gradually 

 larger and more crowded toAvard the apex, erect or spreading, 

 loosely appressed, incurved or twisted when dry, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, gradually acuminate, serrate at the apex, bordered by a 

 narrow yellowish margin becoming broader toward the base 

 and reflexed ; costa stout, reddish, percurrent ; involucral 

 leaves broadly ovate, acuminate, costate, spreading when mois- 

 tened : antheridia and paraphyses very numerous : capsule long, 

 pedicellate, inclined, long-obconical or oblong, sometimes curved 

 upward and subventricose, constricted under the orifice when 

 dry ; lid highly convex, papillate, uniform in color and shining. 

 — Suppl. i. 2. 110; Bryol. Eur. t. 364. Ifnivm triquetrum, 

 Hedw. Muse. Frond, iii. 19, t. 7. 



Hab. Swampy ground, wet rocks, borders of springs; plains and 

 mountains; not rare. 



39. B. turbinatum, Schwaegr. Plants loosely and widely 

 cespitose, rarely in compact tufts, dirty or reddish green ; 



