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IIYPNUM HISPIDULUM, Brid. 

 Tab. 119. 



Plants tenellae, implexae, caaspites densiusculos tenues laete 

 virides infcrne ochraceos efficientes. 



Caulis prostratus, radiculosus, inordinate et subpinnatira ra- 

 mulosns ; ramulis gracilibus erectis vel expansis. 



Folia remotiuscula, horizontalia, squarrosa et squarroso-reflexa, 

 mollia, e basi deltoideo-orbicnlari subitius longe anguste acumi- 

 nata, decnrrentia, parum concava, toto fere margine leniter ser- 

 rulata ; costa gemella brevissima baud raro nulla ; areolatione 

 lineari-fusiformi, cellulis angulorum numerosis latioribus sub- 

 quadratis granulosis : perichastialia albescentia, elongata, longius 

 acuminata, acumine plerumque reflexo. 



Flores monoici, cauligeni : antberidiis parapbysatis, perigoni- 

 alibus tenui-acuminatis. 



Capsula oblonga, erecto-curvula, vel horizontalis incurva, raa- 

 crostoma, luteo-fuscidula ; pedicello pro plantae exilitate longius- 

 culo tenui pallide flavescente ; annulo simplici ; peristomii den- 

 tibus lineari-lanceolatis luteolis firmis ; ciliis dentes aequantibus 

 inter articulationes rimulosis, ciliolis longis appendiculatis ; oper- 

 culo convexo-conico apiculato. 



Hypnum hispidulum, Brid. Sp. Muse. 2, p. 198; Mull. Synop. Muse. 2, p. 



440 ; Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 7 7 ; Muse. Alleghan. No. 37. 

 Hypnum Halleri, var. ? Hook. & Wils. in Drumm. Muse. Amer. Coll. 2, 



No. 147. 

 Hypnum stellatum, var. hispidulum, Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2. p. 603. 



Hab. Roots of trees and the ground, on dry rocky hillsides : 

 not uncommon. 



H. Halleri has a more pinnate ramification, and more crowded 

 and more squarrose leaA'es ; and. grows usually in dense fulvous 



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