Fontinalis.] BRYACE^. 271 



stems, distantly and pinnately branched at right angles ; 

 branches short: leaves close, firm, generally bright green, 

 densely areolate, not dimorphous : male flowers solitary, the 

 female very numerous in the axils of most of the leaves : cap- 

 sule and peristome as in i^. biformis ; cilia less pajjillose. — 

 Mosses of U. States, 104, and Icon. Muse. 105, t. 65. 



Hab. New Haven, Connecticut {Eaton); Massachusetts {Ingraham, 

 James); Ehode Island [Olney); Catskill Mountains, New Jersey, etc. 



7. F. Lescurii, Sulliv. Plants green, passing to glossy 

 gold-color ; stems long, loosely foliate, irregularly branching, 

 subpinnately ramulose toward the apex : leaves oiDcn-erect, 

 obscurely three-ranked, long-lanceolate, concave, soft, clasping 

 at base, slightly serrulate at the apex ; medial cells very narrow, 

 flexuous, linear, the ajncal shorter and broader, those of the 

 basilar angles much larger, oblong, inflated : flowers numerous 

 toward the base of the plants: capsule short, subcyliudrical, 

 thin, covered before maturity to above the operculum by the 

 inner oblong-obtuse tubulose perichaetial leaves, closely enfold- 

 ing it, becoming shortened by erosion when old ; lid long- 

 conical ; teeth granulose-papillose, of 20 to 25 articulations ; 

 cilia trabeculate and connected at the apex, free and appendicu- 

 late at base. — Mosses of U. States, 54, and Icon. Muse. 101, 

 t. 61 ; Sulliv. & Lesq. Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. n. 228. 



Var. gracilescens, Sulliv. Smaller and more slender, 

 resembling F. dlsticha. — Icon. Muse. 101. 



Hai?. Falls of Little River, Lookout Mountains, Alabama {Lesqiie- 

 rc'ix); Saco River, in the White Mountains (Jamefi); Oregon {Hall). 

 The variety in New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Delaware, 

 etc. 



8. F. Sullivantii, Lindb. Much like F. Le.sacrii, the 

 plants slender and smaller: leaves distant, narrower, dirty yel- 

 low ; basilar cells very large ; pericha?tial leaves shorter, not 

 undulate at the apex: capsules numerous, cylindrical, shorter 

 and broader; lid longer. — Of vers. Finska Vet. Soc. xii. 77. 

 F. Lescurii^ var. ramosior^ Sulliv. Icon. Muse. 101, t. 62. 



Hab. Cheshire County, Nev/ Hampshire {Eaton), and Brattleborough, 

 Vermont {Front). 



9. F. filiformis, Sulliv. & Lesq. Ms. Plants very slen- 

 der, much divided ; stems and branches filiform, flexible : leaves 

 convolute, narrow, rigid, loosely areolate ; primordial cells more 

 or less dissolved: capsules very numerous, long-cylindrical; 



