ICONES MUSCORUM. ' 25 



BRUCHIA BEYRICHIANA {Hampe), Mailer. 

 Tab. 15. 



Plant^e luimiles, caispitulosae, pallide-virides. 



Caulis brevis, simplex, basi radiculosus. 



Folia in sicco curvata, Immefacta erecto-aperta ; caulina an- 

 guste-lanceolata, scnsiin e medio loiige subulata, subintegra, 

 nervo valido cum apice evanido. 



Flores moiioici: autlieridia in axillis foliorum comantium 

 sessilia nuda. 



Capsula in pedicello breviuscnlo subflcxuoso emersa, oblonga, 

 subaequalis, rostrata, erecta, collo brevi instructa, brunneo- 

 straminea ; calyptra magna, eapsulam ad basin usque tegens, 

 pluries laciniata. 



Sporledera Beyrichiana, Hampe, Linn. 11, p. 279. 

 Phascum Beyrichianum, Schwaegr. Suppl. 4, t. 301. 

 Bruchia Beyrichiana, Miill. Bot. Zeit. 1847. 



Hab. First found near Baltimore by Beyrich. Santee Canal, 



Ravenel. Burlington, New Jersey, James. North Illinois, 



Dr. Cr. Vasey. 



This species is very distinct, and is recognized by its ovate 



short capsule without any marked collum, covered to its base 



by the long calyptra ; by its inflorescence, etc. 



TAB. 15. — Bruchia Beyrichiana. 



1. Plantffi naturali marjnitudine. 



2. Planta. 



3. Pars caulis cum antheridiis et capsula. 



4. Folia caulina. 



5. Folium caulinum et ejusdem areolatio. 

 G. Folium pericliajtiale. 



7. Capsula immatura, antlieridia, et archegonia. 



8. Sectio longitudinalis capsulie et sporae. 



9. Calyptra. 



10. Antheridium. 



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