22 ICONES MUSCORUM. 



BRUCHIA FLEXUOSA, Schwa.gr. 



Tab. 13. 



Plant.e humiles, densius gregariae vel sparsae, viridi-flaves- 

 centes. 



Caulis 3 - G-linearis, subsimplex, gracilis, flexuosus, basi radi- 

 culosus. 



Folia inferiora crccto-appressa, lineari-lanceolata ; superiora 

 sensim majora, patenti-incurva, e basi lata concava erecta, laxius 

 oblongo-arcolata, in subulam longissimam canaliculatarn densius 

 areolatam apicc obscure denticulatam attenuata ; costa inferne 

 lata cum apice desinente. 



Flores monoici : masculi 2 - 3-phylli in ramulis brevibus 

 propriis terminales ; perigonialibus elongatis ; antheridiis 3-5, 

 paraphysibus nullis. 



Capsula una cum collo solido magno oblongo-obovata, ros- 

 trata, in pedicello plus minus longo flexuoso elata ; calyptra 

 mitra)formi basi lobata ad tertiam partem capsular vel ultra 

 descendente; sporis luteis papillulosis circa diametro g| ¥ uncia) 

 metientibus. 



Piiascum flexuosum, Schwaegr. Suppl. t. 101. 



Bruciiia flexuosa, C. Mlill. ; Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 17; Sulliv. & 



Lesqx. Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), No. 32. 

 Bruciiia Vogesiaca, var., Hook. & Wils. pro parte, in Drum. Muse. Amer. 



Coll. 2, No. 15. 



Var. nigrescens ; caule longiore, capsula subfusiforrai, foliis 

 brevioribus appressis, sporis paullulum majoribus atro-fuscis. 



II aij. On moist exposed ground, Florida to New England, and 

 west to Pennsylvania and Ohio. The var., Raccoon Moun- 

 tains, Alabama, Lesquereux. 



