[CONES MUSCORUM. -I-' 



SYRRIIOPODON FLORIDANUS, Suttiv. 



Tab. 31. 



Plants robustiiiscula3, laxius caespitantes ; caespitibus superne 

 glanco-viridibus inferne sordide flavescentibus vcl bruimescen- 



tibus. 



Caulis uncialis et ultra, simplex vel fastigiato-ramosus, alte 

 parciusque radiculari-tomentosus. 



Folia conferta, e basi lanceolata hyalino-oblongo-arcolata am- 

 plexante lineari-oblonga, acutata, canaliculato-concava, minutis- 

 sime prominule guttulato-areolata, opaca ; margine baseos su- 

 pcrioris obtuse serrulato dehinc fere ad apicem bilamellato, 

 lamellis angustis grossius repaudo-serratis ; costa valida tereti 

 papillosa cum vel sub apice dissoluta. 



Flores dioici: masculi gemmacei -terminales, dein innova- 

 tione laterales ; antberidiis numerosis paraphysibus longioribus 

 tenuissimis. 



Capsula elliptico-cylindracea, erecta, brevius pedicellata, pa- 

 chyderma ; peristomii dentibus sedecies brevibus profunde infra 

 capsular orificium insertis conniventibus teneris pallide luteolis 

 remotius articulatis, absque linea divisuriali; operculo longis- 

 sime aciculari-rostrato ; calyptra cuculliformi ad capsular basin 

 porrecta. 



Syrrhopodon Floridanus, Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 31, t. 2; Sulliv. 



& Lesqx. Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsice. (ed. 1), No. 113. 

 Syrrhopodon ALnovAGiNATUS, SehwEegr. ex Hook. & Wils. in Drunim 



Muse. Amer. Coll. 2, No. 37; Sulliv. Muse. Alleghan. No. 171. 



Hab. On much decayed logs and stumps, Louisiana, Drum- 

 mond. Florida, Chapman. 



We have seen no authentic specimens of Schwaegrichen's Syr- 

 rhopodon albovaginatus from the Ea^t Indies ; but his descrip- 

 tion and figure of it (Suppl. t. 113) are quite inapplicable to 



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