Ej/pnum.] BRYACEiE. 385 



Hab. Deep swamps of Northern Ohio (Lesquereux), sterile; Alaska 

 {Harrinr/tnn), fertile. The variety at Niagara Falls [E. A. T>a:<). 



The variety is considered by Kenault as //. Cossoni, a form of H. vev' 

 nicosum. 



139. H. vernicosum, Lindb. DioBcious : widely cespitose, 

 dirty green or yellow, fuscous witliin ; plants long, ei-ect, pin- 

 nately ramulose ; branchlets short, spreading at right angles, 

 involute, hooked at the apex : leaves very glossy, secund, hamate, 

 reflexed from the middle, ovate or broadly oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, very entire, not decurrcnt nor auriculate at base, 

 concave and sulcate, costate to above the middle ; areolation 

 long and narrowly vermicular, the lower basilar cells broader, 

 reddish brown in two rows ; outer perichaetial leaves reflexed 

 at the a]icx, the upper long, gradually acuminate, costate, 

 deeply sulcate : capsule long-pedicellate, oblong, snbarcuate, 

 horizontal, much arcuate and constricted under the enlarged 

 mouth when dry ; operculum mamillate ; peristome large, nor- 

 mal ; annulus broad, compound. — Ilartm. Skand. Fl. ed. 8, 

 17; Schimp. Bryol. Eur. Suppl. ILjpnum^ 4, t. 4. //. Cossoni, 

 Schimj>. 1. c. 5, t. 5. Amhlystegium vernicoswn, Lindb. Muse. 

 Scand. 33. 



Hab. Bogs, Jordansville, New York {Aztstin); Brushhill Gap, near 

 Easton, Pennsylvania (James); Pack liiver, British America [Lyall). 



140. H. lycopodioides, Schwaegr. Dioecious: plants 

 large, in deep soft tufts, yellowish brown at the surface, dark 

 brown within ; stems long (15 to 20 cm.), llexuous, .erect or 

 drooping, with few dichotomous branches and dijstant open 

 branchlets, hooked at the a})ex : leaves large, falcite or llexuous, 

 secund, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, long-acuminate, narrowly 

 costate to near the apex, soft; areolation of veiy narrow ver- 

 micular undulate cells, the basilar only shorter and broader, the 

 alar (in only two rows) serrate, quadrate; inner perichretial 

 leaves long-ovate and long-acimiinate, deeply sulcate, costate: 

 capsule erect at base, cerinxous or incurved, short-necked, linear- 

 oblong; operculum highly convex, mamillate; teeth long and 

 thick, with a broad hyaline border; segments as long as the 

 teeth, cleft between the articulations ; cilia three, long, distantly 

 nodose at the articulations; annulus very broad, of three rows 

 of large cells. — Suppl. i. 2. 300 ; Bryol. Eur. t. G13, 614. Am- 

 blystef/ium lycopodioides, DeNot. Briol. Ital. 138. 



Hab. Bogs, and ditches in peat meadows. 



