378 , BEYACE.E. [Hijpnum. 



129. H. llispidulura, Brid. Monoecious : jjlants sindl, in- 

 terlaced in dense bright green tufts, yellowisli below; stems 

 prostrate, radiculose, irregularly subpinnately ramulose ; the 

 branchlets slender, erect or expanded : leaves loose, horizontal 

 or squarrose-retlexed, soft, round-deltoid, acuminate, decurrent 

 at base, slightly concave, subserrulate all around ; costa double, 

 very short or none ; cells of the basilar angles numerous, sub- 

 qviadrate, granulose ; pericha3tial leaves whitish, oblong and 

 long-acuminate, reflexed at the apex : capsule small, oblong, 

 more or less incurved, with a wide orifice, yellowish brown ; 

 pedicel comparatively long (2 cm.), pale yellow; operculum 

 convex-conical, apiculate and curved upward; cilia appendicu- 

 late, nearly as long as the slightly cleft segments; annulus 

 simple. — Muse. Recent. Suppl. ii. 198; SuUiv. Mosses of U. 

 States, 77, and Icon. Muse. 193, t. 119. IT. IlaUeri, var. (?), 

 Hook. & Wils. in Drumm. Muse. Amer. (coll. II.), n, 147. 

 IT. stellatum, var. Msjndulimi, Brid. Bryol. Univ. ii. 603. 

 Ccmijjyliuni hispidulwn^ Mitt. Journ. Linn. Soc. xii. 631. 



Hab. Eoots of trees and bushes, near the ground in swampy places. 



130. H. chrysophyllum, Brid. Dioecious : in loose intri- 

 cate dirty or yellowish green tufts ; stems long, slender, pros- 

 trate, flexuous, pinnately ramulose, the branchlets erect : leaves 

 close, reflexed-squarrulose from an erect concave base, entire ; 

 costa simple, narrow, ascending to above the middle ; outer 

 perichfetial leaves squarrose, the inner erect ; capsule long- 

 pedicellate, cylindrical-oblong, incurved, pale orange ; cilia 

 stout, nearly as long as the entii-e segments; annulus large, 

 compound. — Muse. Recent, iii. 84, t. 2, fig. 2. II. poly- 

 morphum., Bruch & Schimp. BryoL Eur. t. 583, not Hedw. ; 

 Sulliv. Mosses of U. States, 77. 



Var. tenellum. Plants smaller : leaves less squarrose, 

 glossy, more distant, narrower, longer and more narrowly acu- 

 minate, longer areolate. — II. ISergenense, Aust. Muse. Appal, 

 n. 391. 



II AB. On the ground, roots of trees, and decaying trunks; plains and 

 mountains. 



Tlie species is very variable and some of its forms closely resemble 

 H. Sommerfeltii, Myrin, ■wliicli is a much smaller moss, with serrulate 

 leaves. II. Bergenense, Aust., at first figured by Sullivant as a species 

 for the Supplement of the Icones, was later considered by him as a variety 

 of this species. 



