n-pmtm.] BRYACE^. 397 



yellow, subulate from the middle ; segments narrow ; cilia two. 



— )Stereodo7i complexus, Mitten, Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 41. 

 Hab. Oh rocks between Fort William and Cumberland House, British 



America (lUchardson). 



IGl. H. pratense, Koch, Ms. Dioecious and pseudo-mon- 

 oecious : tufts pale green and soft ; stems without radicles, 

 prostrate or suberect, irregularly and sparsely subpinnate, ramu- 

 lose above : leaves crowded, plane and subsecund upon the 

 stem and branches, falcate-secund on the branchlets, broadly 

 oblong-lanceolate, subconcave, very entire, obsoletely short- 

 bicostate ; cells very narrowly rhomboidal-vermicular, large, 

 inflated, hyaline at the concave angles ; inner pericluetial leaves 

 long-lanceolate, short-acuminate, plicate: capsule oblong or 

 turgid-ovate, incurved, cernuous, arcuate when dry ; pedicel 

 long, twisted to the left above when dry, to the right below ; 

 operculum convex-conical; annulus triple: inflorescence, peri- 

 stome and annulus as in If. callichroum. — Bruch tt Schimp. 

 Bryol. Eur. t. 611. 11. curvi/olinm, Muell. Syn. ii. 292, in part. 

 II. wncenvm, Drumm. Muse. Amer. n. 196, in part. 



Har. Bocjsy places on the ground; Carlton House ('Drunimond)i 

 Pennsylvania (JamcH)-^ New Jersey {Lanniur/, Austin). 



162. H. Bambergeri, Sehimi>. Pulvinate-cespitosc ; plants 

 yellowisli green, tinged witli brown ; stems erect ; branches 

 fastigiate, simple or with short branchlets : leaves close, glossy, 

 secnnd and laterally compressed on both sides of the stem, erect 

 at base, circinnate or subflexuous at the apex, ovate-oblong, 

 gradually lanceolate-subulate, very concave; borders erect, very 

 entire; costa yellowish, simple or bifid, with unequal divisions; 

 cells vermicixlar, somewhat long, those of the minutely auricled 

 angles few, small, quadrate, and orange-color: fruit unknown. 



— Syn. 698. Stereodon circrdaris, Mitten, Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 viii. 42. S. I3an)berf/eri., Lindh. 



Hab. Beecliey Island and Wellington Channel [Lyall). 



* * * Leaves spreadinQ or partlj honiomallous : Jloicers 



monoecious. 



163. H. Haldanianum, Grcv. Tufts loose, irregularj 

 yellowish or fuscous green ; stems long, creeping, irregularly 

 junnate-ramulose; branchlets distant, unequal, subcomj)ressed: 

 stem-leaves homomallous, those of the divisions erect, spreading, 

 ovate and broadly oblong-lanceolate, very entire; cells of the 



