Antitridda.] BRYACE^. 291 



pinnately ramulose, rarely flagelliforra. Inflorescence and areo- 

 lation as in tlie preceding genus. Calyptra shorter tlian tlie 

 capsule, smooth. Peristome double. Teeth narrowly lanceo- 

 late-subulate, thin, pale, smooth on both sides ; segments a little 

 shorter, narrow, subulate, obscurely carinate, fugacious ; basilar 

 membrane none. 



1. A. CUrtipendula, Brid. Leaves densely crowded, open 

 and subsecund, decurrent at base, plicate in the lower part, 

 broadly ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, denticulate at the apex, re- 

 flexed on the borders ; costa flat, thin, sometimes enlarged and 

 divided at base, vanishing below the apex : cells of the areola- 

 tion very small, fusiform in the middle, transversely oval toward 

 the base from near the costa to the borders ; perichsetium long, 

 polypbyllous, sheathing, the inner leaves long, abruptly nar- 

 rowed into a long acumen, ecostate : capsule oval, on a curved 

 or flexuous pedicel slightly longer than the perich^tium ; oper- 

 culum conical, short-rostrate ; annulus simple, very narrow. — 

 Muse. Recent. Suppl. iv. 136 ; Bryol. Eur, t. 469. Hypyium 

 curtipendulmn^ Linn. Spec. PI. 1128. Neckera curtipendida^ 

 Muell. Syn. ii. 116. 



Var. gigantea, Sulliv. & Lesq. Plants stronger : leaves 

 not plicate, broadl}^ reflexed on the borders ; cells shorter, more 

 obtuse ; costa broader, more divided : capsule ovate-cylindrical, 

 on a thick erect pedicel. — Muse. Bor.-Am. Exsicc. (ed. 2), 

 n. 356. 



Hab. Summit of Black Mountains, North Carolina ['Le$qxierenx)\ 

 Lake Superior [Acjassiz)\ Oregon and Vancouver Island {Pickerin;/, 

 Wood); the variety in the woods, in mountain districts of California 

 (Bolandei-). 



2. A. Californica, Sulliv. Differs from the last in the 

 short julaceous branches, the leaves appressed when dry, short- 

 acuminate, scarcely denticulate toward the apex, cells oval, cap- 

 sule cylindrical, twice as long, reddish, on a straight pedicel, 

 teeth longer and punctulate, cilia short, not half so long as the 

 teeth, and the spores half as large. — Lesq. Trans. Amer. Phil. 

 Soc. xiii. 11 ; Sulliv. & Lesq. 1. c. n. 357 ; Sulliv. Icon. Muse. 

 Suppl. 79, t. 59. A. ciirtipendula^ Sulliv. Pacif. R. Rep. 



iv. 189. 



Hab. On trees in woods, California (Bolander, Watson); Spokan 

 Falls ( Watson). 



