16 ICONES MUSCORUM. 



ARCHIDIUM OHIOENSE, Schimp. 



Tab. 7. 



PlantvE perennes, gregariae vel laxe ca3spitosac, filiformes, 

 sordide virides. 



Caulis 3 - 10-linearis, primo simplex erectus, dein serael 

 bisve innovando-raraosus prostratus, gracilis, flagelliformis. 



Folia patentia, lanceolato-subulata, pellucide ample oblongo- 

 areolata, apice serrulata, costa valida continua : perichaitialia 

 caulinis majora, lato-lanceolata, longe acuminata, costata. 



Flores monoici : masculi gemmiformes cauligeni ; perigoni- 

 alibus 3-5 late c-vatis acutis; antheridiis 3-6. 



Capsula terminalis vel innovatione lateralis, globosa, immer- 

 sa, sessilis, leptoderma : calyptra minuta, lacero-submitriformis. 

 Sporae 16-20, maximse, angulosae, heves. 



Archidium Ohioense, Schimp.; Miill. Synop. 2, p. 517; Sulliv. Mosses 

 U. States, p. 14 ; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), No. 28. 

 Archidium piiascoides, Sulliv. Muse. Alleglian. No. 213. 



Hab. Meadows and waste fields, Ohio and Alabama. 



Differs from the European Archidium phascoides mainly in 

 its male flower, which is gemmiform and differently situated. 



TAB. 7. — Archidium Ohioense. 



1. Plantje naturali magnitudine. 



2. Plantae fertiles. 



3. 4, 5. Folia caulina. 



• ;. Folium caulinum areolatiouem exhibens. 

 7, 8, 9. Perichrctia, capsulas includentia. 



10. Folia pericluetialia. 



11, 12. Capsular. 



13. Capsula verticaliter secta. 



14, 15. Sporse. 

 1G, 17. Perigonia. 



18, 19. Antheridia et perigonialia. 



