360 BRYACEJE. [IIypnu7tu 



long-rostrate ; teeth dark orange ; cilia two or three, unequal ; 

 annuhis large. — Crypt. Gott. 225. //. rijxa-ioides, Iledw. 

 Muse. Frond, iv. 10, t. 4. Ehynchostegiwn rusclforme, Bruch 

 & Schiuip. Bryol. Eur. t. 515, 516. 



Var. Atlanticum. Stems very long: leaves longer, sub- 

 secund, short-acuminate, obscurely striate, dirty green, glossy. 

 — Bruch & Schimp. 1. c, as Ehyiichostegium. 



Var. inundatum. Stems much divided, flexuous, prostrate, 

 densely foliate : leaves ovate-oblong, gradually narrowed : cap- 

 sule short-pedicelled, arcuate, thick. — Bruch & Schimp. 1. c. 



Hab. Stones and wood, in running water; plains and mountains. 



91. H. CUrvisetum, Brid. Moncecious : loosely depressed- 

 cespitose, dark green, irregularly branching and ramulose ; 

 branchlets rigid, spreading, incurved: leaves erect-spreading, 

 striate, those of the stems and lower part of branches distant, 

 the terminal crowded, lanceolate and narrowly oblong-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, concave, costate to the middle, more or less 

 distinctly serrulate ; cells elongated-rhomboidal, the basilar in 

 three or four rows, oblong, obtuse, hyaline ; perichretial leaves 

 few, ecostate, long lanceolate-acuminate : capsule solid, oval or 

 oblong, with a distinct collum, horizontal ; pedicel flexuous, 

 rough ; operculum yellow, long-subulate, rostrate ; cilia nearly 

 as long as the segments, sim])le or geminate. — Muse. Recent. 

 Sup))!. ii. Ill ; Lindb. Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 68. Jih>j»choste- 

 gium TeesdalU, Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Eur. t. 509, excl. syn. 



Hab. Fairmount Park, Philadelphia {James). 



Species insi(fficiently Jmown and not certainly referable to this 



subgenus. 



92. H. Caloosiense, Anst. Moncecious : prostrate, the 

 stems intricate, 6 to 8 cm. long, subpinnately branching: leaves 

 subflattened, broadly obliquely ovate, subacuminate, the borders 

 plane, obsoletely serrulate toward the apex ; costa geminate, 

 distinct to near the middle ; areolation loose, rhomboidal, fusi- 

 form ; paraphyllia long-subulate, subfasciculate : capsule broadly 

 oval, pendent on a short smooth pedicel, much constricted 

 under the orifice when dry, obtuse at base : flowers small. — 

 Coult. Bot. Gaz. iv. 161. 



Hab. Low hummocks on the Caloosahachee River (J. D. Smith, 

 Austin). 

 Somewhat like H. deplanatum and II. micans, but readily distinguished 



