ICONES MUSCORUM. 107 



CRYPHJEA GLOMERATA, Schimp. 



Tab. 67. 



Plants cryptothecae, tenellae, rigidiusculae, in caespitibus laxis 

 elasticis viridi-flavescentibus degentes. 



Caulis primarius arete repens, aetate defoliatus ; secundarii 

 fertiles subunciales, julacei, simplices vel parcissime ramulosi. 



Folia sicca conferte imbricata, madida patentissima, ovato- 

 elliptica, subito brevius acuminata, concava, margine recurva, 

 densius areolata ; cellulis prominulis, mediis et apicalibus ovalibus 

 vel elongato-ellipticis, angularibus minoribus subquadratis ; costa 

 (in icone omissa) ad medium producta : perichaetialia continuo- 

 costata, inferiora minuta ovata, cetera multo majora, media late 

 lanceolata, superiora oblongo-obovata apice rotundata tenui- 

 texta, costa superne incrassata excedente cuspidata. 



Flores monoici: feminei saepius versus caulis secundarii api- 

 cem glomerati ; masculi axillares gemmaeformes ; perigonialibus 

 4-5 ovatis ; antheridiis 3-5 eparaphysatis. 



Capsula ovato-oblonga, leptoderma, brevissime pedicellata, 

 perichaetio subsessili axillari immersa ; peristomio duplici punc- 

 tulato albescente, dentibus lineali-lanceolatis indistincte remoti- 

 usque articulatis, ciliis filiformibus brevibus ; annulo specioso 

 composito ; operculo e basi depresso-convexo breviter rostrato ; 

 calyptra conica latere fissa basi 2 - 3-incisa, apice scabra. 



Cryph.ea glomerata, Schimp. in litt.; Bryol. Europ. ; Sulliv. Mosses U. 



States, p. 56, t. 5 ; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), No. 



230. 

 Cryph^ea filiformis, Sulliv. Muse. Alleghan. No. 81, nee. Hedw. 

 Daltonia heteromalla, var., Hook. & Wils. in Drumm. Muse. Amer. 



Coll. 2, No. 99. 



PlI.OTRICHUM HETEROMALLUM, Var. FILIFORME, C. Miill. Sjnop. MuSC. 2, 



p. 168. 



Hab. Trees, Southern States. 



