H'ONKS MISCOKUM. 17") 



HYPNUM MICROCARPUM, C. Mull 



Tab. 110. 



Plants tcnellse, intricato-caespitulosae, nitidac, colore e viridi 

 aurescente insignes. 



Caulis prostratus, substrato arctc adha3rens ; ramulis brevibus 

 rccurvo- vol incurvo-erectis. 



Folia conferta, plus minus homomalla, angustc oblongo-lan- 

 ccolata, tenui-acuminata, profundius concava, margine reflexa, 

 apice obsolete serrulata, ecostata vel striis costaeformibus brevis- 

 simis notatis ; cellulis retis laxiusculi lineari-fusiformibus, angu- 

 lorum multo majoribus, superioribus quadratis, inferioribus 3-5 

 utrinque oblongis inflatis pro more aureis : folia perichgetii radi- 

 cantis laxa, oblongo-acuminata. 



Flores monoici in caule ramulisque, baud vel parcissime para- 

 physati. 



Capsula minuta, aequalis, ovalis vel elongato-ovalis, in pedi- 

 cello 4 - 5-lineari erecta, brevicolla, leptoderma, exannulata, sic- 

 ca sub ore rubello leniter constricta ; peristomii flavescentis den- 

 tibus e lineari-lanceolato subulatis linea divisuriali flexuosa prse- 

 ditis densius articulatis intus maxime prominenter lamellosis, 

 ciliis dentibus sequilongis latis integris, ciliolis singulis brevibus ; 

 operculo e basi depresso-conica oblique longissime subulirostro ; 

 calyptra dimidiata paulo infra operculi basin descendente. 



Hypnum microcarpum, C. Miill. Synop. 2, p. 32G ; Sulliv. Mosses U. States, 



p. 71. 

 Hypnum crassiusculum, Schwa?gr. ex Hook. & Wils. in Drumm. Muse. 



Amer. Coll. 2, No. 107. 

 Leskea adnata, Micks. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2, p. 314; Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2, 



p. 289 ; Sulliv. Muse. Alleghan. No. 65, 66. 



Var. anisocarpon ; capsula subhorizontali insequali breviter 

 oblonga vel lenissime obovata incurvula, basi longius sensim an- 



