Cryphcea.] BRYACE^. 277 



acumen, the solid costa vanishing at or below the apex : calyjitra 

 conical, entire : cajisule and i^eristome as in the jDreceding 

 species; lid conical, blunt at the apex. — Proc. Amer. Acad, 

 xiv. 138. 



Hab. On Tillandsia, Florida (J. Donnell Smith, Garter). 



The dark color of the plants, the long flexuous slender filiform stems, 

 rarely simple, generally forking above the middle or divided in tufts of 

 short capillary flabellate branches, the form and disposition of the longer 

 leaves, open or recurved at the top when dry, the areolation, the straight 

 conical operculum, and the entire calyptra hispid to below the middle, 

 are the essential characters which separate this species from the last. 



3. C. nervosa, Bruch & Schimp. 1. c. Differs from C. 

 glomeruta in its more slender stems, leaves less crowded, nar- 

 rower, lanceolate-acuminate, the costa ascending to near the 

 apex or vanishing within the acumen, the upper perichaetial 

 leaves lanceolate, and papillose on the back near the apex : 

 calyptra split on one side only : capsule turgid at base, shorter ; 

 annulus simple, shorter, nearly smooth. — Sulliv. Mosses of 

 U. States, 50, and Icon. Muse. 109, t. 08. Daltonia nervosa, 

 Hook. & Wils. in Drumm. Muse. Amer. (Coll. II.), n. 100. 



IIab. On trees; Louisiana (DrMJJunottci); Alabama {i?o62Jisoji). Often 

 mixed with tlie preceding. 



4. C. Ravenelii, Aust. Plants short, dirty green, julaceous, 

 curved, nearly simple : leaves open when moist, round-ovate, 

 obtuse or blunt, opaque, minutely papillose on the back ; borders 

 slightly recurved toward the base, incurved at the apex ; costa 

 ascending to above the middle, flexuous and open, unequally 

 bifid at the apex; areolation obscure, minutely granulose, 

 uniform : fruiting branches very short ; perichaetial leaves thin, 

 pale, abruptly short-acuminate ; costa slender, vanishing far 

 below the apex: capsule oval, solid, surrounded at the orifice 

 by a broad solid red margin ; lid conical, acute ; teeth 8, red, 

 solid, subulate-filiform from the enlarged base, nodulose-articu- 

 l;vte, perforated along the dividing line; segments none. — 

 Coult. Bot. Gaz. ii. 89. 



Hab. Eorae, Georgia (Bavenel). 



Resembles C. glomerata, but is readily distinguished by its obtusish 

 granulose leaves, not squarrose when moist, by its shorter less abruptly 

 pointed perichifitial leaves, not costate to the apex, by its shorter more 

 solid capsule, with a broad solid rim and without a persistent annulus, by 

 its red erect teeth, appressed when moist, and by the want of an inner 

 peristome. — (Austin.) Apparently referable to the following genus. 



