412 BRYACE^, [Hypnum. 



195. H. Coloradense, Aust. Plants roljust; stems erect 

 or at length prostrate, compressed, sj^aringly branclied : leaves 

 erect, appressed-iuibricate, not changed in drying, oblong-ovaU', 

 concave, abruptly piliferous at the often recurved apex; mar- 

 gins entire or subserrate, scarcely recurved at the somewhat 

 narrowed and rounded base ; angles excavated ; cells less narrow, 

 nearly straight and uniform except at the very base, where they 

 are shorter and slightly inflated, oval or roundish, but not more 

 pellucid. — Coult. Bot. Gaz. ii. 111. 



Hab. Colorado (3Iiss II. J. Blddlecome). 



Diifers from Myurium Ilerjedalicnm, Schimp. (Syn. 696), in the com- 

 pressed stem, and the leaves subplicale, somewhat rounded at base, and 

 the margin scarcely recurved below. The reticulation of the leaf suggests 

 a CamptoUiecium, the pilum at the apex is much as in Eurhynchium 

 piliferuia, while the general habit of the plant is that of Ehynchostegium. 

 — (Austin.) * 



