ICONES MUSCORUM. 83 



MNIUM DRUMMONDII, Br. fr Sch. 



Tab. 51. 



Plants caespitosae, laete virides, inferne toraento rufo-ferru- 

 gineo intertextos. 



Caults uncialis ct ultra, simplex, laxius foliosus ; ramulis 

 basilaribus erectis strictis. 



Folia recurvo-patentia, basi decurrentia ; inferiora remota, 

 parvula, elliptico-obovata ; media et comalia sensim majora, 

 confertiora, lanceolato-obovata ; perichaetialia exteriora oblongo- 

 spathulata, interiora minima lanceolata ; omnia mucroniformi- 

 apiculata, limboque angusto lutescente superne ciliolato-dentato 

 cincta ; costa crassiore subcontinua ; reti e cellnlis rotundato- 

 hexagonis chlorophyllosis, basilaribus oblongis subinanibus, for- 

 mato. 



Flores synoici : antheridia paraphysibus longioribus filiformi- 

 bus baud numerosis. 



Capsule saepe 2-3 ex eodem perichaBtio, ovales oblongo- 

 ovalesve, subpendulae, annulatae ; peristomii dentibus lineali- 

 lanceolatis lutescentibus, citiis aurantiaceis in carina late lacu- 

 nosis, ciliolis 2-3 interpositis ; operculo mamillari : calyptra 

 angustissima fugaci. 



Mnium Drummondii, Br. & Sch. in Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 669 ; Sulliv. 



Mosses U. States, p. 47 ; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), 



No. 199. 

 Mnium spinosum, Drumm. Muse. Amer. No. 257, ex pai-te. 



Hab. Near Smoking River, British America, Drummond. 

 White Mountains, New Hampshire, Oakes. 



The synoicous inflorescence, the erect and stiff infertile 

 branches, the decurrent and narrowly bordered leaves, which 



