296 BRYACE^. [Anacamptodon. 



articulate teeth of the peristome, and not with Fahronia. As the oper- 

 culum is unknown the true position of the moss is uncertain. The peri- 

 stome is that of Ilabrodon. 



115. ANACAMPTODON, Brid. (PL 4.) 

 Plants soft, somewhat more robust than in Fahro7iia, widely 

 cespitulose, dark green. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, very entire, 

 plano-concave, chlorophyllose ; costa slender, vanishing above 

 the middle ; areolation rhomboidal-oval. Flowers monoecious ; 

 perichretium of few leaves, covering the slightly hairy vaginule. 

 Calyptra descending to below the lid, whitish. Capsule oval- 

 oblong, with a thick neck, constricted under the orifice when 

 dry, solid. Operculum short-rostrate, from a convex-conical 

 base, straight or oblique. Peristome double; outer teeth 16, 

 lanceolate, close in pairs, distinctly articulate, marked by a 

 straight dividing line, pale, reflexed when dry ; segments 16, 

 filiform, shorter than the teeth. Annulus none. Spores small, 

 yellowish green. 



1. A. splachnoides, Brid. The only known species. — 

 Muse. Recent. Suppl. iv. 136 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 453. Neckera 

 splachnoides, Schwaegr. Suppl. i. 2. 151, t. 82. Campylodon- 

 tium hypnoides, Schwaegr. Suppl. iii., t. 211. Fahronia splaclv- 

 noides, Muell. Syn. ii. 38. 



Hab. Forks and hollow knots or decaying horizontal surfaces of fallen 

 trees; rare. 



116. HABRODON, Schimp. 

 Plants small ; habit and mode of growth of Fahronia. 

 Leaves squarrose when moist, loosely incumbent when dry, 

 ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, entire; perichaetial leaves 

 open-erect or spreading, the outer ovate-lanceolate, the inner 

 long-lanceolate, hyaline, erose-dentate on the borders. Flowers 

 dioecious ; vaginule smooth, on a short rooting branchlet. Cap- 

 sule oval-oblong, thin. Lid conical, obtuse. Peristome simple, 

 attached far below the orifice of the capsule; teeth linear- 

 lanceolate, spreading from the middle when moist, strongly and 

 distantly articulate. Annulus compound, narrow. 



