1C0NES MUSCORUM. 131 



MYURELLA CAREYANA, Sulliv. 



Tab. 83. 



Plants pusillae, tcnellse, supcrnc glauco-viridcs, inferne sor- 

 dide albesccntes, radiculis longis ca3spitose intricate. 



Caulis tenuis ascendens, stolonifer, fasciculato-ramosus ; ramis 

 ramulisque gracilibus tereti-foliosis siccitatc fragilibus. 



Folia laxius incumbentia, patenti-incurva, late ovata, tenuiter 

 elongato-acuminata, cochleariformi-concava, toto ambitu spinu- 

 loso-dentata, dorso longius papillosa, basi vix vel brevissime 

 costata ; reti amoeno e cellulis majusculis pellucidis rhomboideo- 

 ellipticis extus unipapillosis composito : perichsetialia laxius 

 texta, vaginantia, lanceolata, longe filiformi-acuniinata, grosse 

 dentata. 



Flores dioici : perichaetia conspicua fusco-aurantia : perigonia 

 oblonga, majuscula ; folia perichsetialibus similia sed minus 

 longo-acuminata ; antheridia 5-6 cum paraphysibus numerosis 

 brevioribus. 



Capsula erecta, oblongo-ovalis vel elongato-obovata, macro- 

 stoma, in pedicellum tenuem debilem 5 - 7-linearem sensim de- 

 fluens ; peristomio duplici hypnoideo, dentibus pallide luteolis, 

 ciliolis binatis ; annulo duplici subpersistente ; operculo brevi- 

 conico ; calyptra fugaci. 



Myurella Careyana, Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 61, t. 5 ; Sulliv. & Lesqx. 

 Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), No. 250. 



Hab. Mountains, New England, Carey. Pennsylvania, Les- 

 quereux. Negro Mountain, North Carolina, Gray and Sulli- 

 vant. Brattleborough, Vermont, Frost. Helderberg Moun- 

 tains, New York, Austin. 



The filiformly apiculate leaves of this species, ciliate-dentate 



