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dry contracted below the mouth; lid conic, slenderly rostrate, the beak long 

 and recurved; peristome-segments nearly as long as teeth, cilia usually 3, about 

 as long as segments, nodose to weakly appendiculate; basal membrane reaching 

 almost to middle of inner peristome; teeth narrowly lanceolate, yellowish- 

 brown, with distinct divisural, moderately trabeculate; annulus large; exothecial 

 cells rectangular to hexagonal, yellow-incrassate, or brownish; spores yellowish- 

 incrassate, finely papillose, about .009-.012 mm in diameter, mature in Sep- 

 tember and October. 



In shaded woods on leaf -humus, old logs, etc., from New England to 

 the Gulf States and west to Kansas. It often hangs down in wide, thin mats 

 from overhanging ledges. 



This is one o^ the most commonly collected mosses of our area, now represented in 

 the herbarium by specimens from more than si.xty localities from 16 counties. It probably 

 occurs in all. 



