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tissime rhomboideo-areolatis, perichastialibus imbricatis ovato-lanceo- 

 latis. Capsula in pedicello recto subunciali obliqua vel iuclinata, 

 ovali-oblonga, leptoderma, pallide badia, siccitate longitudinaliter 

 sulcata ; annulo duplici revolubili ; operculo late conico brevi. 



Hypnum Silesiacum, Hooker & Wilson in Drurnmond's Musci 

 Americani (Southern States), no. 111. 



Hab. Near St. Louis. 



