286 BRYACE^. [Romalia. 



falcate-lingulate and striolate lengthwise when dry, and the beak 

 of the operculum and the peristome shorter. — Syn. 473. 



Hab. Catskill and "White Mountains, on overhanging rocks (James); 

 Pennsylvania [Ran). 



4. H. gracilis, James. Plants soft, slender, much divided, 

 divaricate ; branches gradually filiform and flagelliform, flexuous : 

 lower leaves loosely imbricate, slightly oblique, open. Ungulate, 

 oblong, obtuse and obtusely apiculate, those of the upper 

 branches more distant, erect, all with double basilar costa or 

 none, and entire ; perigonial leaves few, ovate-acuminate, slightly 

 margined by a row of longer cells : antheridia few (2 to 4), spar- 

 ingly paraphysate : female flowers and fruit unknown. — Rep. 

 Keg. New York Univer. (1869), xxii. 57; Sulliv. Icon. Muse. 

 Suppl. 82, t. 25. 



Hab. On rocks, Sand Lake, New York (V. Colmn); Adirondack 

 Mountains (C. //. Peck); Catskill Mountains (James); New Jersey 

 (Austin), with male plants. 



107. METEORIUM, Brid. 



Plants long, pendent from the branches of trees ; stems foliate 

 from the base, distantly pinnate ; branches filiform, attenuated. 

 Leaves imbricate-cordate, clasping ; cells of the areolation long, 

 narrow, linear, at the base oval-quadrate and inflated. Capsule 

 generally short-pedicelled. Peristome as in HornciKa. 



1. M. pendulum, Sulliv. Plants yellowish green ; branches 

 long and very slender, flexuous : leaves open-erect, those at the 

 base of the branches larger and flattened, linear-lanceolate, grad- 

 ually narrowed to a long filiform point, opaque, papillose on the 

 back, serrulate on the slightly recurved margin, costate to the 

 middle ; alar cells larger, angular-ovate, the upj^er linear-fusiform ; 

 perichoetial leaves small, scarcely covering the hairy vaginule, 

 loosely areolate : flowers dioecious (?), the male unknown : ca^ 

 lyptra long-conical : capsule small, oval, on a pedicel double its 

 length ; lid conical, obliquely short-beaked ; peristome double ; 

 teeth lanceolate, distantly articulate, more or less perforated and 

 split along the dividing line ; segments from a broad basilar 

 membrane, slightly shorter than the teeth, linear-lanceolate, 

 carinate ; cilia none. — Mosses of U. States, 81, and Icon. Muse. 

 117, t. 73. 



Had. On trees and bushes. Western Louisiana ( Teinturier, Biddell). 



