276 BRYACE^. [Cryphcea. 



minate ; costa vanishing below the apex ; areolation minute, 

 round-oval above, longer toward the base. Flowers monoecious, 

 numerous ; perichoetia on short branches, often agglomerate, the 

 pericha3tial leaves very different from those of the stem, with a 

 linear vermicular areolation, hexagonal-rectangular at base. 

 Calyptra conical-campanulate, many times split at the base, 

 rough or papillose. Capsule immersed, subtruncate at base, 

 ovate, thin. Peristome double ; outer teeth linear-lanceolate, 

 articulate, minutely papillose ; segments narrow, linear or fili- 

 form, punctulate ; cilia none. Annulus large, compound. 



1. C. glomerata, Bruch & Schimp. Plants small, rigid, 

 in loose fiat yellowish green tufts ; primary stems naked when 

 old, the secondary julaceous, simple or rarely branching : leaves 

 close, imbricate, ovate-ellijjtical, abruptly short-acuminate, con- 

 cave, reflexed on the borders, densely areolate ; medial and 

 upper cells elliptical, longer toward the base, the marginal 

 smaller and subquadrate ; costa reaching to the middle ; lower 

 perichfetial leaves minute, ovate, the upper gradually becoming 

 much larger than the inner, oblong, abruptly rounded at the 

 apex, thin, the costa excurrent into a thick point : male flowers 

 gemmiform : calyptra 2-3-laciniate at base, split nearly to the 

 top on one side, scabrous at the apex : capsule oval-oblong, thin, 

 very shortly pedicellate ; lid obliquely conical, acute ; peristome 

 whitish ; segments short ; annulus compound, very broad. — 

 Bryol. Eur. under Cryphma., 5 ; Sulliv. Mosses of U. States, 56, 

 t. 5, and Icon. Muse. 107, t. 67. G. fiUformis^ Sulliv. Muse. 

 Allegh. n. 81. Daltonia heteromalla, Hook. & Wils. in Drumm. 

 Muse. Amer. (Coll. II.), n. 99. 



Hab. Trunks of trees, mostly in the Southern States; not rare. 



2. 0. pendula, Lesq. &, James. Plants slender, loosely 

 pendent, dark brown, green in the upper part only ; primary 

 stems very short or scarcely seen, the secondary filiform, thicker 

 in the middle, branching at the apex only ; branchlets capilli- 

 form, either long and forking, or short, multiple and flagellate : 

 leaves squarrose-spreading when moist, long-acuminate; areo- 

 lation dense ; apical cells ovate, angular, the alar transversely 

 elongated, quadrangular ; costa short, vanishing below the mid- 

 dle, sometimes forking at base ; perich89tial leaves with a short 



