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BRYUM LESCURIANUM, Sulliv, 



Tab. 60. 



Plants pusillae, gregarise vel interrupte casspitulosae, viridi- 

 lutescentes, nullo rubore tinctae. 



Caulis 6-10 lineas longus, simplex, declinatus, basi parcc 

 radiculosus. 



Folia inferiora remota, parvula, anguste lanceolata ; superiora 

 majora in comani.polyphyllam conferta, erecto-patentia, elongato- 

 lanceolata ; perichsetialia longe linealia, acutata ; omnia summo 

 apice leviter serrata, laxius areolata, costa valida ad apicem fere 

 attingente instructa. 



Flores dioici : plantae masculae minores, floribus terminali- 

 bus ; perigonialibus exterioribus e basi concava erecta snbulatis 

 patentibus, interioribus multo brevioribns ovatis acutis ; anthc- 

 ridiis numerosis paraphysatis. 



Capsula in pedicello e basi subgeniculata flexuoso-erecto 

 pendula, pyriformis, sicca opercnlo detruso valde macrostoma ; 

 annulo duplici revolubili ; peristomii duplicis dentibns lineali- 

 lanceolatis subnlatis pallide luteis remotius articulatis, processi- 

 bus in linea carinali fissis, ciliolis singulis interjectis ; operculo 

 hemisphaerico-apiculato. 



Bryum Lescurianum, Sulliv. in Mem. Araer. Acad. n. ser. 4 ; Sulliv. 



Mosses U. States, p. 44. 

 Bryum pulchellum, Muse. Alleghan. No. 101, nee Hedw. 



Hab. Clay banks, Cincinnati, Ohio, Lea. Lancaster, Ohio, 

 and near the Dismal Swamp, Virginia, Lesquereux. Penn- 

 sylvania and New Hampshire, James. 



Besides other marks of less importance, such as the plane 

 margins of the leaf, and the absence of redness in any part of 



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