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POGONATUM CAPILLARE, Michx. 



Tab. 49. 



Plants humilcs, grcgariac vel in caespitibus laxis supcrne 

 glaucescenti-viridibus inferno rufescentibus degentcs, sola basi 

 radicantes. 



Caulis subuncialis, tenuis, simplex, raro sub pericha)tio inno- 

 vans, laxe foliosus. 



Folia inferiora minuta, dissita, subappressa, ascendendo-ma- 

 jora et patula ; comalia majuscula, e basi membranacea breviter 

 vaginante linealia, acuta, margine argute serrata, tota superficie 

 superiore (ilia partis vaginantis excepta) lamelligera, lamellis 

 incrassato-marginatis. 



Flores dioici : planta) masculae fertilibus minores, e floris 

 centro prolificantes ; floribus anthoideis ; perigonialibus interiori- 

 bus brevioribus latissime ovatis acuminatis ; paraphysibus partim 

 filiformibus partim apice expansis. 



Capsula oblongo-cylindracea, erecta, pedicello tenui suffulta, 

 papillulosa, leptoderma ; peristomii dentibus 32 longiusculis 

 lingulatis acutis e membrana basilari vix emersa oriundis hyali- 

 nis in axi aurantiaceis ; operculo e basi depresso-hemisphaBrica 

 longius flexuose erecto-rostrato ; indumento villoso capsula) § 

 tegente. 



Pogonatum capillare, Michx. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2, p. 294 ; Britl. Bryol. 



Univ. 2, p. 128; Sulliv. Muse. Alleghan. No. 115. 

 Pogonatum urnigerum, Drumm. Muse. Amer. No. 284, ex parte. 



Hab. Canada, Michaux. White Mountains, New Hampshire, 

 Barratt, Tuckerman, Gray, Oakes, James. Rocky Moun- 

 tains, Drummond. 



Resembles closely P. urnigerum ; but that is a larger, more 

 robust, and more rigid species ; its leaves are more crowded and 



