Hypmim.] BRYACE.E. 341 



point, concave, serrulate and recurved on the borders, costate 

 to above the middle ; cells very narrowly linear, enlarged at the 

 angles ; inner perichtetial leaves oblong, abruptly long-acumi- 

 nate ; costa almost none : capsule oblong, regular and suberect, 

 or slightly inclined and more convex on one side, on- a purple 

 pedicel rough at the base only ; lid large, obtusely long-conical, 

 constricted in the middle, mamillate ; teeth densely articulate, 

 hyaline-marginate ; segments large ; cilia solitary and short or 

 none ; annulus double, revoluble. — Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. 

 n. 334; Sulliv. Mosses of U. States, 76, and Icon. Muse. 189, 

 t. 117. Leshea Fendleri^ Sulliv. Mem. Amer. Acatl. iv. 169, 

 t. 1. 11. velutinum^ var. microcarjyitm, Muell. Syn. ii. 400. 



Hab. On rocks near Santa Fe, New Mexico (Fendler). 



Resembles the last in size and habit, but is easily recognized by its 

 longer capsule and longer operculum; the basilar cells are few and large 

 in this species, and the peristome is of a different character. 



48. H. Bolanderi, Lesq. Dioecious : tufts compact or 

 loose and widely expanded, pale green ; stems irregularly 

 divided ; branches long, flexuous or rigid, suberect, subpinnately 

 ramulose : leaves open-erect, ovate-lanceolate, short-acuminate, 

 flat on the borders, serrulate all around, costate to above the 

 middle; areolation loose, the alar cells few, distinct, oblong- 

 quadrate, pellucid ; upper pericha^tial leaves broadly sheathing 

 at base, narrowed into a flexuous or reflexed serrulate Ions 

 point, obsoletely costate : capsule short-oval, gibbous, hori- 

 zontal; operculum short-conical, brown, tipped with black; 

 pedicel short, blood-red, arcuate above, rough ; segments split 

 their whole length ; cilia two, as long as the segments ; annulus 

 large, compound, revoluble. — Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. xiii. 12 ; 

 Sulliv. & Lesq. Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 2), n. 502. 



Hab. On the ground, imder Uinbellularia Californicn (Bolander). 

 With the aspect of //. Sullivantii, but distinguished at once by its short- 

 conical operculum. 



49. H. Starkii, Brid. Monoecious : more or less densely 

 tufted ; stems prostrate, branching ; branchlets erect, arcuate 

 at the apex : stem-leaves obcordate, lanceolate-actiminate, half- 

 twisted at the point, those of the branches narrower, all decur- 

 rent at the basilar concave angles, serrate, costate to below the 

 point, bright green and glossy ; meshes of the areolation loose, 

 hexagonal-rhomboidal, the alar large, quadrate ; perichaetial 

 leaves squarrose, the inner ecostate, pale : capsule abruptly 



