ICONES MUSCORUM. 



POGONATUM BRACHYPHYLLUM, Mickv. 



Tab. 48. 



Plants humiles, rigidae, dense gregarise, olivaceo-virides, de- 

 mum fusco-rubentes, e prothallio radiculari innovantes. 



Caulis linea brevior, e basi sola radiculos numerosissimos 

 proferens, rosulato-foliosus. 



Folia conferta ; inferiora minuta, squamiformia, decolora ; 

 caetera multo majora duplo triplore caule longiora, media valde 

 patentia, summa erectiuscula, e basi lata brevi membranacea 

 laxe oblongo-reticulata amplectante oblongo-lanceolata, obtusi- 

 uscale acuta, margine integra ; costa superne dilatata dense 

 lamelligera totamque fere paginam explente ; lamellis latis mar- 

 gine incrassatis. 



Flores dioici : masculi hucusque ignoti. 



Capsula e collo parvulo gibboso-ovata et brevi-oblonga, cernua, 

 pachyderma, cellulis parietis externi prominulis papillosa, luteo- 

 fusca, sicca plus minus costulata atque sub ore ampliato con- 

 stricta ; columella 4-6-alata ; pedicello 7-10-lineari firmo atro- 

 purpureo sicco dextrorsum torto ; peristomii dentibus 32 ligulatis 

 acutis rufo-aurantiis ad margines hyalino-albescentibus, mem- 

 brana basilari exserta ; operculo depresse convexo-conico apicu- 

 lato ; mitra villosa calyptrae brunneo-rufa ultra capsulae medium 

 producta. 



Pogonatum brachyphyllum, Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2, p. 294; Scbwaegr. 

 Suppl. t. 156 ; Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2, p. 113 ; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Muse. Bor.- 

 Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), No. 211. 



Hab. Moist clayey banks, Texas, Wright. Louisiana, Drum- 

 moncl. Green County, Mississippi, Tice. Wilmington, 

 North Carolina, Curtis. 



Pogonatum brachyphyllum is a somewhat smaller species than 

 P. brevicaule, and has a much shorter stem, as well as rosulate 



