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IIYPNUM PALUDOSUM, Sulliv. 



Tab. 101. 



Plants pinnato-ramulosse, cuespites latos tumesccntcs laxos 

 e viridi lutcscentcs efforinantes. 



Caulis 3-4-uncialis, subprostratus, bis tcrve divisus, clivi- 

 sionibus elongatis simpliciter pinnatis ; ramulis baud confertis 

 breviusculis inaequalibus tenuibus laxius subcomprcsso-foliosis. 



Folia erecto-patentia, e basi concava cordata lanceolata, 

 parce plicato-striata, margine plus minus roflexa, usque ad 

 sumraam fere apicem dentatara valido-costata, utraque pagina 

 Isevissima, elongate rhomboideo-areolata ; parapbylliis ciliato- 

 ramosissimis copiosis : perichaetii polypbylli foliis interioribus 

 oblongis sensim longe tenui-acuminatis longitudinaliter pluries 

 striatis. 



Flores monoici cauligeni : masculi laxe gemmacei ; antheri- 

 diis parapbysatis. 



Capsula oblongo-cylindracea, incurvo-cernua, annulata ; pe- 

 ristomii ciliis in carina parce rimulosis, ciliolis ternatis nodoso- 

 articulatis dentes lineali-lanceolatos aequantibus ; operculo bre- 

 vissimo conico-apiculato. 



Hypnum paludosum, Sulliv. Muse. Alleghan. No. 7 ; Mosses U. States, p. 

 68 ; Miill. Synop. Muse. 2, p. 455 ; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Muse. Bor.-Amer. 

 Exsiec. (ed. 1), No. 281. 



Hab. Cranberry marshes, Northern Ohio. Rhode Island,. 

 Olney. Massachusetts, Russell. Vermont, Frost. 



Resembles H. Blandovil, with which it is not unfrequently 

 confounded: but that species is a Thuidium, Bryol. Eur op. , and 

 has upright or ascending stems, more densely clothed with 

 longer and more compound paraphyllia: its leaves are more 



