352 BRYACE^. [Uypnum. 



pulchellum, Hedw. Spec. Muse. 265, t. 68. Earhyncliium 

 strigosum^ Bruch & Scbimp. Bryol. Eur. t. 519. 



Hab. Shady sandy ground, in hilly regions and mountains; common. 



71. H. diver Sifolium, KSchimp. Ms. Much like the last; 

 tufts more compact, dh-ty yellow, stoloniferous ; branches and 

 branclilets shorter, erect, julaceous: branch-leaves closer, those 

 of the branchlets ovate, obtuse, narrowly costate or ecostate, 

 more distinctly serrulate ; perichoetial leaves subsquarrose, 

 ecostate. — Earhynchium diversifolium^ Bruch & Schimp, 

 Bryol. Eur. t. 520. 11. strigosmn^ var. dwersifolium, Lindb. 

 Muse. Scand. 34. 



Hac. Dry sandy hills, under chestnut trees, Ohio (Lesquereux)\ 

 shaded banks, New Jersey {Austin). 



72. H. Boscii, Schwaegr. Plants robust, in wide loose dark 



golden yellow mats; stems prostrate, subpinnately branching; 



branches mostly simple, obtuse, turgid, terete-foliate : leaves 



closely imbricate, clasping at base, oblong-ovate, narrowed to a 



twisted filiform jwint, cochleariform, concave, searious, shining, 



shortly bieostate or simply costate to the middle; areolation 



narrowly linear, the basilar cells shorter, thick, yellowish brown; 



periehoetial leaves narrowly long-acuminate, the inner erect : 



capsule oblong, erect-incurved, anniilate ; segments more or less 



split; cilia three, solid, and nearly as long. — Suppl. i. 2. 223; 



Sulliv. Mosses of U. States, 70, and Icon. Muse. 167, 1. 106. 11. 



illecehrum., Hedw. Spec. Muse. 252, t. 66, excl. syn. 



Hab. On the ground and on sandstone rocks in hilly wooded districts; 

 not unconmion, but rarely in fruit. 



This fine moss is without close analogy to any other species. 



^- H— Pedicel rough. 



73. H. COlpophyllum, Sulliv. Ms. Tufts soft, wide, 

 dirty green ; stems prostrate ; branchlets close, erect, tumid : 

 leaves searious, open, loosely incumbent, ovate, concave, 

 abruptly acuminate, blunt at the apex ; costa stout, prominent 

 on the back, abruptly disappearmg above the middle and 

 toothed at the apex ; areolation long-linear, acutely hexagonal, 

 the alar and basilar cells nearly similar: ca]isule cylindrical- 

 oblong, sliglitly incurved, constricted under the orifice when 

 empty ; operculum conical at base, rostrate ; peristome normal ; 

 annulus double. — Earhynchium colpophyllwn, Sulliv. Icon. 

 Muse. Suppl. 95, t. 71. 



