Anomodon.] BKYACE^. 305 



1. A. rostratus, Schimp. Densely cespitose ; tufts bright 

 green at the surface, ochreous within ; primary stems fascicu- 

 lately ramose, brittle, with tiliform innovations : leaves densely 

 imbricate, ovate at base, narrowly lanceolate and long-apiculate, 

 with a solid costa vanishing below the apex ; pericha^tium long, 

 whitish, with thin ecostate leaves, the inner narrowed into a 

 filiform reflexed point as long as the leaves : capsule short-pedi- 

 cellate, oval-oblong, i-eddish-brown ; Hd long-beaked ; segments 

 nearly as long as the teeth, carinate, dirty yellow, with cilia 

 solitary or rudimentary or none. — Syn. 488. Leskea rostrata, 

 Iledw. Spec. Muse. 226, t. 55 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 473 ; Sulliv. Mosses 

 of U. States, 59. 



Hab. Roots of trees, in woods; not rare. 



2. A. attenuatus, Hueben. Plants in loose wide tufts; 



secondary stems fasciculately ramose, incurved at the apex, 



mixed with flagelliform sometimes very long stolons : leaves 



subsecund, narrowed and decurrent at the ovate base, lanceolate 



above, blunt and apiculate at the apex, very densely pai>illose 



on both faces ; perichretial leaves lanceolate-acuminate from an 



ovate base : capsule long, cylindrical, straight or slightly curved, 



reddish brown, shining ; pedicel long, twisted ; teeth narrowly 



lanceolate; segments filiform, fragile and irregular; annulus 



narrow. — Muse. Germ. 562 ; Bi'yol. Eur. t. 475. Leshea attemt- 



ata, Hedw. Muse. Frond, i. 33, t. 12. Hyunum attemiatum, 



Schreb. ; Muell. Syn. ii. 473. 



Hai;. On rocks, roots and trunks of trees where mud is deposited by 

 inundations ; very common along rivers. 



3. A. Obtusifolius, Bruch & Schimp. Loosely and widely 

 cespitose, glaucous-green, dirty red when old ; primary stems 

 creeping, flagellate, the secondary straight, simple or divided at 

 base : leaves tAVO-ranked, lingulate-obtuse from an oblong-ovate 

 base, thick, opaque, minutely round-areolate ; costa pellucid, 

 vanishing below the apex ; upper perichaetial leaves long- 

 sheathing, longer Ungulate at the apex : capsule short, ovate or 

 elliptical, on a short pedicel ; teeth nodose-articulate, linear- 

 lanceolate and subulate ; segments very short from a very 

 narrow membrane, often abortive ; annulus large. — Lond. 

 Journ. Bot. ii. 668 (1848) ; Sulliv. Icon. Muse. 119, t. 74. A. 

 minor, Fuern. ; Lindb. Faun. Fl. Fenn. ix. 267. 



Hab. On trunks of trees, near water-courses, in the Middle States; 

 common. 



