Hypniim.] BRYACE^. " 331 



segments yellow, attached to a fragile scarious membrane, nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, split or disjointed, separated by solitary deli- 

 cate subnodose cilia. — Regensb. Flora, Iviii. 79 (1875). 

 Hac. Oakland, Oregon [Uarvy). 



26. H. compressuluin, Muell. 1. c. Plants slender, bright 

 green, soft ; stems short, slender, distinctly compressed ; branch- 

 lets short, very slender, irregularly pinnate, slightly comjDressed : 

 stem-leaves erect, more or less open, ovate or oblong-acuminate, 

 concave, slightly decurrent at base, distinctly denticulate all 

 around, bicostate ; cells soft, very glossy ; uj^per i^eriehajtial 

 leaves longer acuminate : capsule much longer, very narrowly 

 cylindrical. 



Hab. Oakland, Oregon [B. D. Neclus). 



Subgenus VII. CAMPTOTHECIUM. 



Plants yellow, glossy, cespitose ; stems pinnately ramulose. 

 Leaves crowded, erect, strict, subscarious, long-lanceolate, 

 gradually acuminate, deeply plicate lengthwise, narrowly cos- 

 tate ; areolation very naiTow, linear or vermicular, smooth, 

 the basal cells quadrate at the angles. Flowers dioecious ; male 

 buds often parasite upon female plants. Capsule oblong or 

 cylindrical, cernuous, arcuate when dry. Pedicel rough, except 

 in H. nitens. Peristome perfect ; membrane broad ; segments 

 as long as the teeth. — Camptothecium^ Schimp. 



27. H. lutescens, Huds. Stems rigid : leaves minutely 

 serrate at the apex, those of the branches narroAver and some- 

 times subsecund: capsule cernuous from above its erect collum, 

 oblong-cylindrical, more or less arcuate, dirty yellow ; oper- 

 culum rostrate. — Flor. Angl. 42 ; Hedw. Muse. Frond, iv. 40, 

 t. 16. Camptotheciiiin lutescens, Bruch & SchimjJ. Bryol. Eur. 



t. 558. 



Hab. Alaska (Kellor/g)' Northwest coast (Z)oz(r/Zas) ; Vancouver Isl- 

 and (Lyall)\ Victoria, Oregon (iJoiancZe?-, iVe?;/i(s); California (Coulter). 



28. H. SBneum, Mitt. Leaves gradually lanceolate-acumi- 

 nate from the ovate base; costa vanishing below the apex; 

 borders reflexed, distantly serrulate ; alar cells small, short, 

 obscure ; pericha?tial leaves long, erect, broadly lanceolate, 

 abruptly acuminate-subulate, serrulate, ecostate : capsule in- 



