ICONIiS MUSCOKUM. 203 



HYPNUM LESCURII, Sulliv. 



Tab. 124. 



Plants mediocres, csespites laxiusculos tumescentes saturate 

 virides efficientes. 



Caulis prostratus, plus minus defoliatus, divisus ; ramis 

 ramulisque irregulariter dispositis confertioribus insequalibus 

 adscendentibus. 



Folia laxius incumbentia, undique erecto-patentia, rare- sub- 

 hoinomalla, crassiuscula, opaca, toto fere ambitu leniter obtuse 

 serrulata ; caulina late ovata, breviter acuminata ; ramulina an- 

 gustiora, brevius ovali-lanceolata ; omnia concava, limbo lato 

 luteo e cellulis flexuoso-linearibus 4 - 5-seriatis exstructo circum- 

 data ; costa valida usque in apicem obtusiusculum porrecta ; reti 

 e cellulis hexagono-oblongis granulis chlorophyllosis impletis : 

 folia perichoetii basi radicantis erecta, solute vaginantia ; infe- 

 riora ovata, acuminata ; superiora oblongo-lanceolata, costa ex- 

 eunte cuspidata, longitrorsum striata. 



Flores monoici, cauligeni ; masculi gemmacei ; perigonialibus 

 ecostatis. 



Capsula oblonga, erecto-cernua, brevicolla ; pedicello vix 

 unciali rubello ; peristomii dentibus aureis basi confluentibus 

 crebre articulatis ; ciliis in carina hiantibus, ciliolis binis longi- 

 usculis interpositis ; annulo lato composito ; operculo e basi 

 convexo-conica breviter apiculato. 



Hypnum Lescurii, Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 79 ; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Muse. 

 Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), No. 350. 



Hab. On moist rocks, Tallulah Falls, Georgia, Lesquereux. 

 Brattlcboro, Vermont, Frost. York County, Pennsylvania, 

 Porter. 



