﻿North American Eurhynchia 229 



M. Bescherelle (Ann. des. Sci. Nat. VII. 17 : 378. 1893) 

 refers B. Novae-Angliae to Scleropodium, a disposition with which 

 I cannot agree as the papillose leaves and the short leaf-cells are 

 not characters of the genus as originally defined. 



Branch leaves acute to short-acuminate, apex twisted. I. B. Noiae-Angliae. 



Branch leaves longer acuminate, apex not twisted. 2. B. graminicolor. 



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i. Bryhnia Novae-Angliae (Sulliv. & Lesq.) 



Hypnum Novae- Angliae Sulliv. & Lesq. Muse. Bor. Am. (Ed. i) 

 338. 1856. Sulliv. Mosses of the U. S. 76. 1856. 



Brachythecium Novae-Angliae J 



Gesell. 1876-77: 338. 1878. 

 Hypnum scabridum Lindb. Bot. 



Nat. 



Sot. Not 1887: 41. 1887. 

 Bryhfda scabrida Kaurin Bot. Not. 1892: 60. 1892. 

 Eurhynchium Novae-Angliae Kindb. Can. Rec. Sci. 1894: 23. 



1894. 



Hypnum (Cratoneuron) chloropterum C. Muell. & Kindb. 



Macoun, Cat. Can. PI. 6 : 231. 1892. 



Eurhynchium chloropterum C. Muel 



Rec. Sci. 



1894 : 23. 1894. 



Gametophyte in wide loosely intricate mats, bright green on 

 the outside, dirty brownish green below, stems decumbent ; sec- 

 ondary stems sub-erect, about 5 cm. long, subpinnately branching; 

 branches erect-ascending, terete -foliate, often subjulaceous, 5-10 

 mm. long ; branch leaves erect-open, loosely appressed-imbricate 

 when dry, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, decurrent, 0.8-1.2 x 0.4-0.6 

 mm., serrulate, very concave, not plicate, papillose on the under 

 side by the thickened angles of the cell walls, long-acute to short- 

 acuminate ; apex twisted one-half turn to the right ; costa thick, 

 extending beyond the middle of the leaf; median leaf-cells oblong- 

 hexagonal, 5:1; alar and basal cells little differentiated, somewhat 

 enlarged; stem leaves broadly ovate to triangular-ovate, 1-1.4 x 

 0.8-1.2 mm., nearly smooth, longer acuminate ; leaf-cells shorter, 

 areolation of decurrent angles somewhat more loose and more 

 nearly rectangular : dioicous ; male branches gemmiform ; an- 

 theridia oblong ; perigonial leaves oblong-ovate, gradually long- 

 acuminate ;' perichaetium about 2 mm. long; the leaves with 

 sheathing bases and squarrose points ; inner leaves oblong, long 

 filiform-acuminate, somewhat serrulate above, costate. Sporophyte 

 1-2 cm. high ; seta dark red-brown, very rough with broad low 

 papillae ; capsule dark red-brown, almost black when old, oblong 



