ICUNES MUSCORUM. 73 



ATRICHUM CRISPUM, James. 



Tab. 46. 



Plants dense gregariae, e rhizoraate subterraneo ortai, satu- 

 rate virides. 



Caulis 1-2 uncias altus, flexuoso-erectus, subsimplex, tenuis, 

 rigidulus, brunneo-nitidus, sola basi radiculis copiosissimis in- 

 structus. 



Folia ampla, erecto-patentia et patula, baud vaginantia ; 

 inferiora remota, lanceolata vel elongato-lanceolata ; superiora et 

 summa approximata, majora, ligulato-lanceolata ; utraque ala 

 undulata exsiccatione crispata, limbo angusto rufescente ar- 

 gute serrato circumcincta, subtus la3via ; costa percurrente sub 

 tereti, parcissime anguste lamellosa ; reti denso e cellulis mi- 

 nutis rotundato-hexagonis cbloropbyllosis, basilari laxo ampliore 

 oblongo. 



Flores dioici : masculi anthoidei ; perigonialibus externis 

 tribus maguis spathulato-lanceolatis, interioribus numerosis mi- 

 nimis obcordatis acuminulatis ; antheridiis angustis ; parapbysi- 

 bus filiformibus. 



Capsula erecta vel inclinata, recta vel curvula, obovato-cylin- 

 dracea, basi in pedicellum subuncialem sensim defluens, ma- 

 crostoma ; peristomii dentibus 32 lineali-lingulatis hyalino- 

 albidis, linea axili rufo-aurantiaca excepta ; calyptra anguste 

 cuculliformi sola apice spinuloso-hirta ; operculo conico longi- 

 rostro. 



Atrichum crispum, James in Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. ; Sulliv. Mosses 

 U. States, p. 41 ; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), 

 No. 209 b . 



Hab. Grassy banks of small streams, near Camden, New Jer- 

 sey, James. 



