CincUdium.] BRYACE^. 249 



and in its broadly obovate leaves, not eraarginate nor apiculate 

 at the apex, the margins broader, not thicker, and uniform in 

 color; the capsules (not yet ripe) are small, shorter, abruptly 

 pendent ; lid conical-beaked, straight, not very acute. — Bryol. 

 Eur. t. 388. M. pseudopunctatum, Bruch & Schimp., in Lond. 

 Journ. Bot. ii. 669 (1843). 



Hab. Swamps and wet places in woods; Northwestern America 

 {Drummond, Me Schimper). 



20. M. hymenophylloides, Hueben. In soft loose pale 

 green tufts; stems radiculose below, dark brown : lower leaves 

 round-ovate, the upper narrowed at base, shortly and obtusely 

 acuminate ; costa gradually thicker toward the base, vanishing 

 below the apex ; branch-leaves distant, vertically exposed and 

 distichous, the young pale or yellowish green, the old brownish, 

 more solid, equally margined all around: fruit unknown. — 

 Muse. Germ. 416; Bryol. Eur. t. 399. 



Hab, Trenton Falls, New York {James). 



***** Stems tree-like : leaves dimorphous. 



21. M. Menziesii, Muell. Dioecious : loosely cespitose ; stems 

 rigid, 6 to 10 cm. long, tomentose at base, dividing at the sum- 

 mit into numerous spreading simple branchlets covered with 

 distant appressed squamiforni scarious lanceolate acuminate 

 whitish leaves, ciliate-dentate from the middle upward ; costa 

 vanishing below the apex ; branch-leaves ovate, lanceolate>-acu- 

 minate, simply serrate above, concave-plicate, the costa abruptly 

 spinose on the back, vanishing below the apex ; perichsetial 

 leaves broadly oval, long-acuminate, serrulate at the apex : 

 pedicels long, generally clustered : capsule oval-cylindric, broad- 

 mouthed, pendent ; peristome large, robust. — Syn. i. 177. 

 Br yum Menziesii., Hook. Bot. Misc. i. 36, t. 19. Hijpnum 

 acanthoneuron, Schwaegr. Suppl. iii. t. 258''- Hhizogonium 

 accuithoneuroji, Muell. Bot. Zeit. v. 803. Leucolepis acantho- 

 neura, Lindb. Mniac. Eur. 87. 



Hab. Western coast of North America ; not rare. 



88. CINCLIDIUM, Swartz. 



Closely allied to 3Liium, separated esj^ecially by the peculiar 

 structure of the peristome ; the outer composed of linear- 

 lanceolate obtuse teeth, transversely latticed and membrana- 



