BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



Vol. ^. JUNE, 1877. ^o. 8. 



Bryolo(tICal Notes; by C. F. Austin. — Excai.ypta Seiavyxi n-isp. — luflorescenlia 

 capsula peristomioque E. proccra, diflert tamen statura humiliore, calyptra longissime 

 infra capsulaiu producta, basi profiiude iuciso-laciuiata limbo fusco oraata, foliis mar- 

 gine uiagis miuusve revolutis, superioribiis late lingulatis costa percurrente vel exciu- 

 rente et pilo lonjro liyalino subdoplauato instructis. 



Vauconver's Island, May, 1875. Macoan. 



Calyptra narrow, nearly or quite as long as in E. ronturtn (Wclk.) 

 Hvpp. (E. utreptorarpii, Hedw.) yellowish with a brownish or greenish 

 tinge, with a broad thin fuscous border, and more or less incised at the base, 

 the frmge persistent and becoming white with age. persistent for more than 

 one year, the whole surface minutely and rather remotely papillose. Pedicel remotely 

 and minutely papillose, dark red, solid, the apex twisted to the riglit (rarely to the left). 

 Capsule solid, strongly sulcate and distinctly twisted to the right, cylindrical. Peris- 

 tome perfectly epapillose, elongated; the outer dtirkred, with the teeth tilliform aud dis- 

 tantly nodulo.se; the inner yellow, with the cilia nearly as long as the teeth and arising 

 from abroad membrane; annulus not seen. Stems short and subgreganous . Leaves 

 somewhat carinate, slightly undulate and more or less revolute on tlie margin in tiic 

 middle; the lower ones oblong or oblong-linear obtuse with the costa usually percur- 

 rent; the upper ones broadly Ungulate acute and with the costa extending into the long 

 hyaline tlattish 7)«7«///. Costa densel}' papillose on the back and rufous below; nearly 

 naked, yellowish and somewhat pellucid towards the apex. Inner perich.etial leaves 

 very small and acute, piliferous. Inflorescence momecious and bisexual in the same 

 l)lant. Pistils sometimes naked and axillar\-. ^ 



' Syrrhopodox v cKisrus, /(. «p. — Humilis, cagspites compactos interne fusccsce'ntes 

 >uperne pallido-fuscescentes vel Havido-virides formans; foliis siccitate valde cris])atis 

 (Orthatricliuin rrinpulnut lemulantibus) in humore strictis suberectis a basi tenuis- 

 sima sensim angustata auguste ]jandur«formi-ligulatis planis papillosis, apice obtuso 

 ac saepe retuso, solum parte inferiore valde hyalina marginatis, parte superiore den- 

 sissime granuloso-arcolatis papilloso-crenulatis hand lamellatis, costa iutescentc per- 

 currente: sterilis. (An Calyj/ipere^ nYiet-iei^'f) 



On rotten wood, Florida, Feb. 1877, J. Donnell Smith. 



A very distinct species with much the ap]jearance of a sterile compact growtli 

 of Dirraitui/i iDoiifiiniiiji, which is found on rotten wood in open places in the north. 



(4RIMMIA Color ADEXSE, ». ,yi. — 3Ionoica (autoica) pulvinato-ctespitulosa ; caulc 

 'i-'^ lineas longo fasti giato-ramoso, foliis caulinis erectiusculis lanceolatis vel s'ubliugu- 

 iatis carinatis muticis vel superioribus hyalino-apiculatis margine magis minusve jn- 

 crassatis nonnunquam supra medium leniter recurvis, reti minutissimo denso leuiter 

 pellucido, l)asilari i)aulo majori, costa tenui plerunuiue longeante apicem evanida, 

 perichstialibus erectis latioribus basi laxe textis pellucidis margine ssepe subuudulatis 

 apice longiuscule hyalino-mucronatis (mucrone .serrato) costa sub apice evanida: caji - 

 sula in |iedicello recto perbrevi immersa globosa macrostoma, peristomii dentibus |>al- 

 lido-rubris brevibus latis apice subcril)rosis siccitate patenti-recurvis huniiditate in" 

 curvis: calyptra opei'culoque hand visis. 



