IfcjHiticd' of Norfh Aiiifn'ai. B9 



reticulated, with u narrow distinct costa. Gemmae wanting. 

 Name from Gr. konos, a cone, and kepJmIe, head, alluding to 

 the conic carpocei)haluni. 



1. C. conicus Dumort. Thallus 5-15 cm. long, 1-2 cm. 

 wide: carpoeephalum conic, striate, crenate at the margin. 

 ( MarcJiaiifitf n»i/ni L.. Cotiorcplidhix ni/(/(iris Bisch, Fr</(iUlI<( 

 coHi'ca Corda.) 



Hab.— Shady banks of rivulets ; common. (Eu.) 

 Bib.— Syn. Hep. p. 546; Hep. Europ. p. 155. 

 Delin.—Sulhy. Mosses V. S. t. VI. 

 Erm,c. — Hep. Bor.-Amer. No. 131. 



X. FIMBRIARIA Nees. 



Carpocephalum pedunculate from the apex of the thallus 

 or its innovations, conic or hemispheric, concave beneath and 

 expanded at the margin into usually 4 large, pendent, campan- 

 alate, 1-fruited involucres. Inner involucre oblong-oval or 

 subconic, protruding half its length beyond the involucre, with 

 the projecting portion cleft into 8-16 fringe-like segments 

 which are often more or less coherent at the apex. Calyptra 

 with a long style, fugacious. Capsule scarcely pedicelled, glo- 

 bose, irregularly circumscissile near the middle. Spores angu- 

 lar, slightly reticulate, apparently margined. Elaters rather 

 short, uni-quadrispiral. Antheridia immersed in the thallus, 

 without receptacle. Thallus thickened in the middle, with a 

 keeled costa. which in some species throws out lateral innova- 

 tions, usually conspicuously porose above, and with dark pur- 

 ple scales beneath. Gemmee wanting. Name from Lat. fini- 

 brice, a fringe. 

 * Peduncles iiioir or less pilose; divisions of inner involncre 

 roJierent at their apices, 

 f Inner involucre 8-cleft. 



.1. F. elegans Spreng. Thallus 0.6—2.1 cm. long, 2—4 

 mm. wide, producing innovations from the costa underneath 

 and also from the apex, linear-oblong, the innovations obcord- 

 ate, emarginate or bilobed at the apex, glaucous-green and mod- 

 erately porose above, abruptly carinate and usually dark purple 



