408 BRYACE^. [Uypmim. 



longer basilar teeth ; branch-leaves broadly ovate, short-acumi- 

 nate, dark green ; pericha?.tial leaves broad, spreading at the 

 point: capsule turgid-ovate, subhorizontal, pale brown; lid 

 conical, acute ; segments nearly entire ; annulus none. — Muse. 

 Exsicc. n. 66 ; Hedvv. Sp. Muse, 263, t. 67. IT. proli/erian, 

 var. wnbratum., Wahl. Hylocomiiim umbratum, Bruch & 

 Schimp. Bryol. Eur. t. 488. 



Hab, Deep pine woods on high mountains; summit of the Adirondack 

 and Calskill Mountains (Lesqnereux). 



187. H. Oakesii, Sulliv. Plants in wide depressed swollen 

 dirty green tufts ; stems continuous by annual arcuate innovar 

 tions, distantly pinnately ramulose; branches and branchlets 

 compressed-foliate: stem-leaves loose, broadly ovate, open, 

 those of the branches glossy, loosely incumbent, ovate-oblong, 

 all concave, more or less long-acuminate (the borders recurved 

 to near the apex), irregularly and coarsely serrate above, sim- 

 ply costate to the middle ; parapliyllia large, bijunnately 

 divided ; pericluetial leaves ecostate, sheathing to the middle, 

 there squarrosely reflexed, nai-rowed to a long sharply serrate 

 point : capsule globose-ovate, turgid, on a long slender arcuate 

 pedicel; operculum convex-conical, short-rostrate; annulus 

 none ; peristome of the last. — Gray's Manual, 673 (1848), Mem. 

 Amer. Acad. n. ser. iv. 173, t. 5, and Icon. Muse. 159, t. 102. 

 HyloGommm fimhriatum, Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Eur. t. 489. 

 Hylocomiiim Oakesii^ Schimp. Coroll. 139. Ilylocomium 

 Pyrenaicimi, Lindb. 1. c. 37. 



Hab. Wliite Mountains (Oalces, James). 



188. H. brevirostre, Ehrh. Tufts large, swollen, some- 

 what rigid, pale or dark green ; stems solid, arcuate, erect or 

 drooping, irregularly or fasciculately pinnate-ramulose, covered 

 with minute paraphyllia : stem-leaves spreading, squarrose or 

 subsecund, broadly obcordate-ovate, abruptly and narrowly 

 apiculate, decurrent and half-clasping at base, irregularly sul- 

 cate, narrowly bicostate, serrulate above, those of the branch- 

 lets ovate-lanceolate, all glossy ; perichretial leaves half-sheath- 

 ing at base, subulate-acuminate, squarrose-reflexed, serrate at 

 the apex : capsule horizontal, on a pedicel arcuate above, turgid- 

 ovate or oblong, sulcate when dry ; operculum long-conical, 

 acuminate or subrostrate; teeth orange; cilia subappendicu- 

 late; annulus narrow. — Muse. Exsicc. n. 85 ; Schwaegr. Suppl. 



