304 BRYACE^. [Leskea. 



dimidiate: capsule soft, oblong, regular or slightly inclined, 

 thin, on a short soft pedicel; teeth narrowly lanceolate, thin, 

 hyaline ; segments linear, carinate-plicate, orange, shorter than 

 the teeth, solid and narrow; membrane bi'oad. — Fl. Lapp. 369; 

 Bryol. Eur. t. 471. JVeckera pulainata, Muell. Syn. ii. 83. 

 3fyrima pulvinata, Schimp. Syn. 482. 



Hab. Canada and British Columbia, on trees [Macoun); very rare. 



Schimper separates this species from Leskea as a new genus, Myrmia, 

 on account of the loose and smooth areolation of the leaves. 



8. L. Wollei, Aust. Plants very small, intricately cespitose, 

 irregularly or subpinnately ramose and ramulose, greenish 

 brown above, reddish below : leaves of the primary stems 

 broadly deltoid-ovate, abruptly long-acuminate, those of the 

 branches narrower and shorter acuminate, those of the branch- 

 lets somewhat rigid, ovate, acute or short-acuminate, concave, 

 imbricate, slightly rugulose when dry, all very entire ; costa 

 broad, simple and longer, or unequally bifid ; cells rhomboiclal ; 

 those of the basilar angles and of the borders quadrate up to the 

 apex: fruit and flowers unknown. — Bull. Torr. Club, v. 22. 



Hai;. Niagara Falls (Wolle)\ Lake Superior [Macoun). 



A very uncertain species, on which the author remarks that it is of about 

 the size and has much the general appearance of Ilj/pnum adnatum ; the 

 ■ leaves much as in that species in position, sliape and areolation, but 

 more concave, and the areolation shorter; the stem-leaves shaped some- 

 what as in Ilypnum hispidulum, but more concave, with a more abrupt 

 longer and more flexuous point, and with entire margins. In a small frag- 

 ment communicated by the author, the leaves are found to be nerveless 

 or the costa bifid at base, as in Hypnum adnatum. It appears to be a 

 variety of that species. 



121. ANOMODON, Hook. & Tayl. (PI. 5.) 

 Primary stem creeping, stoloniferous ; fertile branches erect; 

 branchlets fasciculate or irregular. Stem-leaves distant, minute, 

 hard ; those of the branches more crowded, spreading or 

 secund ; areolation minute, very chlorophyllose, papillose on 

 both faces (except in A. Toccoob). Flowers dioecious. Calyptra 

 long. Capsule erect, oblong or cylindrical, regular, chestnut- 

 colored, coriaceous. Teeth pale, linear-lanceolate ; segments 

 short, linear, more or less irregular from a narrow membrane. 

 Annulus narrow or none. 



