Alsia.] BRYACE^. 279 



57, t. 4, and Icon. Muse. 114, t. 72. Neckera Ohioensis^ Muell. 

 Syn. ii. 93. Forsstrcamia Ohioensis, Lintlb. Ofv. Finsk. Vet. 

 Soc. xii. 75. 

 Hab. Central Ohio, on trees in swampy woods; not rare. 



3. L. nitidus, Lindb. Ms. Plants yellowish green, glossy; 

 primary stems prostrate, with mere fragments of leaves, the 

 secondary scarcely flattened, erect, or curved above, irregularly 

 divided into short slender densely foliate round branches: 

 leaves erect, inabricate, slightly auriculate at base and decurrent, 

 broadly oblong-ovate, short-acuminate, serrulate at the apex 

 only; costa short, vanishing below the middle; cells of the 

 ai-eolation narrowly rhomboidal, oblong-linear, chlorophyllose ; 

 those of the angles few, quadrate, inflated, small and brown ; 

 pericha!tial leaves linguiform, abruptly short-acuminate, ecostate, 

 very entire : capsule immersed, oval-globose, with a dark purple 

 margin, glossy, rugulose when dry ; lid large, broadly conical, 

 aj^iculate ; teeth of the simple peristome linear-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, pale brown, very brittle, densely trabeculate. — Sulliv. 

 Icon. Muse. Suppl. 80, t. 60. Keckera Macoimii, Sulliv. Canad. 

 Nat. ser. 2, ii. 79 and 397, name only. Forsstroemia nitida^ 

 Lindb. 1. c. 73. 

 Hab. On trees, near Belleville, Canada {Macoun), 



104. ALSIA, Sulliv. 

 Habit and appearance of Leptodon : primary stems creeping, 

 defoliate, rooting, the secondary erect, dendroid, pinnately or 

 bipiimately divided ; branches more or less curved downward 

 or circinate when dry. Stem-leaves ovate-oblong, lanceolate, 

 with multiform paraphyllia; areolation punctiform, oval-quad- 

 rate oti the basilar borders. Flowers dioecious, the male 

 numerous, on stems and branches. Calyptra cuculliform, 

 smooth. Capsule generally short-pedicellate, cylindrical or 

 oblong, erect or subcernuous, emerging from a long imbricate 

 lierichaBtium. Lid conical, curvirostrate. Peristome double ; 

 outer teeth linear-lanceolate, long; segments linear, filiform, 

 nearly as long as the teeth, enlarged and carinate at the junction 

 with the basilar membrane, articulate and perforated, with or 

 without cilia. Genus allied to Leptodon. 



