294 BRYACE^. [Fabronia. 



Bryol. Eui-. t. 448. Ilookeria lucens, Smith, Engl. Bot. t. 1902, 

 and Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 275. 

 Hab. Decayed logs in dark shaded ravines; Oregon {E. Hall). 



Tribe XX. FABRONIEiE. 



Plants very small, creeping, in glossy green or small yellowish 

 tufts ; branches erect. Leaves crowded, spreading, ovate- 

 lanceolate, dentate or ciliate, rarely entire, soft ; areolation 

 loose, rhomboidal, chlorophyllose ; costa short or none. Calyp- 

 tra cucullate, dimidiate. Capsule ovate, erect, symmetrical, dis- 

 tinctly necked, short-pedicelled. Operculum somewhat large, 

 obtuse or rostrate. Peristome simj^le, of 8 bigeminate or of 16 

 solid remotely articulate teeth ; absent in one species. 



114. FABRONIA, Pvaddi. (PI. 4.) 

 Leaves very thin and delicate ; costa none or simple, obso- 

 lete. Flowers monoecious. Capsule thin. 



1. F. pusilla, Raddi. Cespitulose ; plants yellowish green : 

 leaves close and subsecund, or more distant and spreading, 

 ovate-lanceolate, prolonged into a long filiform acumen, lacin- 

 iate-dentate on the borders to below the middle, the lacinije 

 sometimes long, with a few teeth ; costa none or very short : 

 capsule subspherical, minute, truncate when empty ; lid large, 

 broadly convex-conical ; teeth 16, approximate in pairs, some- 

 times bifid at the apex or splitting along the dividing line, yel- 

 low. — Att. Accad. Siena, ix. 230 ; Schwaegr. Suppl. i. 2. 337, 

 t. 99 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 450. 



Var. ciliata. Cilia of the leaves longer. — I^. Schimperiana^ 

 DeNot. Briol. Ital. 228 ; Lindb. Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 71. 



Hab. Bark of trees, Santa Fe, New Mexico (Fendler); Oakland, Cali- 

 fornia (Bolander). 



2. F. gymnostonia, Sulliv. & Lesq. Much like the pre- 

 ceding, differing in its shorter ciliate leaves, with a distinct 

 costa gradually diminishing to near the middle, and especially 

 in the absence of a peristome, the orifice of the capsule being 

 closed by a horizontal membrane. — Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. 

 n. 254 ; Sulliv. Icon. Muse. 136, t. 86. 



Hab. Santa Fe, New Mexico [Fendler). 



