ICONES MUS0O1UIM. 185 



HYPNUM L.ETUM, Brid. 

 Tab. 115. 



Plants laxc intricato-ctespitosao ; ca3spitibus exteusis leniter 

 tumcsccntibus e viridi lutcscentibus sericeo-nitidis. 



Caulis prostratus, divisus ; ramis ramulisquc plus minus ap- 

 proximatis inaequalibus erectis subsciuroideis apicc attcnuatis. 



Folia conferta, undique erecto-patentia, e basi ovata concava 

 marginibus late recurva lanceolata, in acumen rectum brevius 

 longiusve sensim angustata, plus minus striata, toto fere ambitu 

 leniter serrulata ; costa ultra medium procedente ; reti tenui 

 elliptico-lineari, cellulis ad angulos basilares subquadrates nume- 

 rosis granulosis : perichastialia numerosa, membranacea, mollia, 

 intima laxe vaginantia oblonga ex apice abrupto filiformi-acumi- 

 nata, acumine varie flexo. , 



Flores dioici : feminei plerumque cauligeni ; masculis supra 

 ramulorum basin sitis ; parapliysibus in utroque flore copiosis. 



Capsula in pedicello subunciali purpureo laevi oblongo-cylin- 

 dracea, curvula, leniter inclinata, vel brevior turgida erecto-cer- 

 nua, pachyderma, exannulata, badia ; operculo elongato-conico 

 vel conico brevi-rostrato ; peristomii dentibus lanceolato-subulatis 

 luteis densius articulatis, ciliis rimulosis punctatis, ciliolis binis 

 nodosis. 



Hypnum l^tum, Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2, p. 4 79; Miill. Synop. Muse. 2, p. 



357 ; Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 75. 

 Hypnum luteolum, Miill. Synop. Muse. 2, p. 357. 

 Hypnum salebrosum, Sulliv. Muse. Alleghan. No. 43. 

 Brachythecium LjETUM, Bryol. Europ. t. 554 ; Sehimp. Synop. Muse. 



Europ. p. 531. 



Hab. On decayed logs and the ground, in moist shaded places ; 

 common. 



