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iiicurva \x\i pnllidii hand stnimosa, !<eta circa S-linoari flexuosa tennispima gracili 

 liallida, operciilo luiij^c rostrato, aniuilo aiigiisto, peri.stomii deiitibiis profunde fis- 

 sis, calj'ptra conico-eylindiica basi leniter fissa vix ad operculi basim deeedente: 

 colore la-te fulvo-viridi. 



Colorado, 1875. BiaiidMjec (liait). 



Readily distingui.<lied by its liglit yellowish green color, compact growth, 

 shortish twisted convolute nearly smooth leaves with a siibexcurreiit costa and 

 small cells, Hexuose slender pedicel, slightly curved and nearly smooth capsule, 

 and b}- the very short calyi>tra — barely more tlian covering tiie rostrum of the op- 

 erculum. 



It has somewhat the appearance of X'./mZi-ioh, but is much smaller and more 

 compact, leaves shorter, costa narrower, reticulation larger, capsule more curved, 

 calyptra shorter, etc. In shape, position and reticulation of the leaves, it is al- 

 most precisely like a form of IK Schraderi, wliieh I have found near Closter, grow- 

 ing in situations where one would naturallj' look fi)V I), fvhtim, nud also resem- 

 bling this species almost exactly in general appearance. In D. liauei the capsule is 

 a little narrower than in D. Shraderi, but is of precisely the same color and is also 

 nearly or quite as much incurved. But the latter is a much larger species, the 

 leaves are not shining, and the pedicel is much longer and straight, and the calyp- 

 tra is much larger, descending to at least the middle of the caj^sule. 



Trichostowum? sciTULUM, H.sp. — Plantie minutaj subeaespitosfe; caule tenui 

 12-Iineari flexuoso-erecto; foliis distichis (semper ?) e basi erecta subvaginante 

 valde undato-patentibus abrupte linealibus canaliculatis laxiuscule areolatis valde 

 scabroso-papillosis margine eroso-serratis, -costa percurrente (vel breviter excur- 

 rente?): caetera desunt. 



On dry shaded limestone rocks at the zinc mines, Ogdensburg, New Jersey. 

 A very small and apparently distinct species. Position of the leaves much as in 

 Distichium inclinatnm; but thej^ are more undate-flexuose, less solid and not so 

 acute, and the papilla' on their surface are larger, etc, 



Barbula Closteri, ii. sji. — Caule valde abreviato (vix ultra lineari) laxe caes-i. 

 pitoso, foliis recurvo-patentibus in sicco paulum mutantibus lineali-lanceolatis, 

 canaliculato-carinatis, margine integerrimo uno alterove infra medium lenissime 

 recurve vel toto piano, apice obtusiusculo minutissime hyalino-apiculato Cut in B. 

 conroluta), costa validiuscula percurrente vel brevissiine cxcurrente, rete superne 

 subminuto granuloso-papilloso interne perlaxo hyalino: tlores et fructu desunt: 

 color Isete tlavido-virens. 



On the ground near Closter, Sept., 1867; not since i"e-discove_red, although fre- 

 quently looked for. Xearest to B. convfiluta; but that has the leaves more erect, 

 more ovate (wider at the base), abruptly carinate, more acute, and the areolation 

 is one-half smaller. 



Funaria Ravenelii, n. sp. — A F. hijuromntrica cui proxima est differt : foliis 

 angustioribus patulis excurrenti-nervibus, capsula angustiore basi acutiore in sicco 

 magis conformiter costata textura densiore, operculo magis persistente, peristomii 

 dentibus (notal)iliter ad basim) minus crebre articulatis, etc. 



Seaboard of Soutli Carolina, July, 1S74, Bai-nncL ^ 



In F. liacenelii the cai)sule is very acute at the base, and of a dark brownish 

 red color even when harehj mature; when dry tiie ridges are very prominent and re- 

 markably uniform, and tiie moiith is very obli(iue, being brought into nearly the 

 same plane as the under side of the f horizontal) rOjisnle; the texture is thickish and 

 opake ; the ordinary cells are heteromorphous, and at the apex of the capsule pass 

 abruptlj' into the very solid dark fuscous subcubieal ones, which form a narrow 

 rim about its mouth. The capsule of /''. hiif/rornetrica is always pale yellow until 

 after maturity ; in the dry state the ridges are not uniform, the texture is lax 

 and subpellucid, and there are 3 or 4 rows (jf cells immediately beneath the 

 rim which are vertically compressed, and thus the ordinary cells pass gradually 



