ICONES MUSOORUM. -07 



HYPNUM SULLIVANTIiE, Schimp. 

 Tab. 126. 



Plants in cajspitibus densiusculis e flavescente laetc viridibus 

 scriceo-nitentibus degentes. 



Caulis uncialis et ultra, ascendens, pauciramosus ; ramis erec- 

 tis basi laxifoliis radiculosis supcrne compressiuscule turgido- 

 foliosis. 



Folia confertius incumbentia, oblongo-ovata, subitius breviter 

 filiformi-apiculata, subcymbiformi-concava, tenuia, nitida, versus 

 apicem serrulata ; eosta basilari bifurca, crure altero nonnun- 

 quam ad medium usque procedente ; reti e cellulis angustissimis 

 longissimis flexuosis utrinque attenuatis ad angulos defluentes 

 amplioribus oblongis : perichgetialia erecta, laxius vaginantia ; 

 interiora oblonga, apice tenui-acuminata. 



Flores dioici, utrique paraphysati, ad ramorum basin siti ; 

 masculis 2-3 aggregatis. 



Capsula e collo angustiore cylindraceo-oblonga, erecta, aequa- 

 lis, rarius subinaequalis leniter cernua, leptoderma, sicca lsevis ; 

 pedicello unciali rubro ; annulo simplici majusculo ; peristomii 

 dentibus lanceolato-subulatis conferte articulatis luteolis, ciliis 

 ajquilongis angustis integris, ciliolis binis nodoso-articulatis ; 

 operculo alte conico sensim oblique crasso-rostrato: 



Hypnum Sullivanti^e, W. P. Schimp. in litt. ad Lesqx. ; Sulliv. Mosses 

 U. States, p. 80; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), 

 No. 355. 



Plagiothecium Suli.ivanti^:, Schimp. Brvol. Europ. Plag. p. 16, in 

 adnot. 



Hab. On rocks in dense woods, Central and Southern Ohio : 

 rare. 



Authentic specimens of Plagiothecium Rwseamim are not at 

 hand for comparison ; but in the description and figure of that 



