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inner oblong-lanceolate, abruptly long filiform-acuminate, distantly 

 serrulate, often with traces of a costa. SporopJiyte 10—15 mm. 

 high ; seta red-brown, slightly twisted to the right, very rough with 

 large crowded papillae ; capsule red-brown, ovoid to subglobose, 

 urn 1.5 mm. long and about two-thirds as broad ; operculum short- 

 rostrate, scarcely more than long conic when moist, one-half length 

 of urn ; annulus present, easily detachable ; teeth very slender 

 pointed; segments shorter than the teeth, little or not at all split; 

 cilia two, well developed, nodose; spores nearly smooth, 13-15 

 /*, apparently maturing in autumn. 



Type locality, Pennsylvania, Muhlenberg. Type at Geneva. 



On the ground or rocks in moist and shady places. New 

 Brunswick to Minnesota, Illinois, and Georgia ; Missouri, Bush. 



Local and rarely fruiting. Reported from Vancouver Island, 

 Roell, Hedwigia, 35 : 69. 1896 but probably a mistake. 



Illustrations. Sulliv. Icon. Muse. pL lOj. 



Exsiccati. Sulliv. 1. c. ; Sulliv. & Lesq. Muse. Bor. Am. (Ed. 

 1)291, (Ed. 2) 430; Aust Muse. Appal. 334; Macoun, Can. 

 Muse. 296. 



Distinguished from B. Novac-Angliac by its more slender 

 habit, smaller and more slenderly acuminate leaves which are much 

 more strongly papillose. 



2a. Bryhnia gramixicolor Holzingeri (Ren. & Card.). 



Eurhynchium Sulliv a ntii Hohingcri Ren. & Card. Bot. Gaz. 19 : 

 239. 1894. 



More densely caespitose ; branches shorter, generally obtuse ; 

 leaves broader, shorter acuminate. 



Type locality in the District of Columbia, Coville ; New Jersey. 

 Best ; Missouri, Demetrio. 



This is the extreme variation in the direction of the charac- 

 ters noted above. The other extreme is reached in Drummond's 

 Muse. Am. (S. 



States) 133 and Ren. & Card. M 



Exsic. 196, which is more straggling and stoloniferous ; branch 

 leaves more distant and open, lanceolate, reaching I mm. hi 



strongly dentate-serrate and very strongly papillose roughened; 

 stem leaves ovate-lanceolate, longer acuminate, reaching 1.3 &**- 



in length. 



