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Entire, ovate to ovate-lanceolate. 



Teeth ciliate-papillose * Leskea, 301 



Teeth not papillose * Anomodon, 304 



Spinulose-dentate to fimbriate (rarely entire), deltoid or round-ovate, * Thelia 298 



■f "I" Leaves not papillose; capsule straight; segments bifid or adhering to 

 the teeth. 



Plants small ( 1-2 cm.); capsules about 2 mm. long * Pylaieia, 308 



Plants large ( 4-6 cm.); capsules 4 mm. long * Cylindrothecium, 310 



* * Segments not distinctly keeled, narrow ; leaves costate ; cells roundish 



to oval rhombic. 



Stem and branch leaves similar * Leskea, 301 



Stem leaves much smaller than branch leaves * Anomodon, 304 



* * * Segments distinctly keeled, often broad. 



t Capsule symmetric, erect. 

 [ Species of Hypnum with erect or suberect capsules may be found here.] 

 Leaves not papillose, ecostate ; annulus large. 



Leaf-cells quadrate at basal angles * Cylindrothecium, 310 



Leaves ecostate ; annulus small, narrow * Pylaisia, 308 



Leaves costate ; plants dendroid * Climacium, 313 



1 1 Capsule unsymmetric, often arcuate. 

 Leaf-cells small ; calypti-a cucuUate * Hypnum, 316 



ANALYTIC KEY TO THE SPECIES OF KANSAS MOSSES. 



SPHAGNUM, p. 12. 



X S. molle Sulliv. 13. 

 Saline Co.; a very young and sterile form (Dr. Joseph Henry). 



MICROMITRIUM, p. 37. 



X Micromitrium sp. ? 



Too young to determine. Saline Co. (Joseph Henry.) 

 EPHEMEEUM, p. .37. 



Leaves costate, costa excurrent ; setaO; capsule blunt-pointed. 



Leaves with long hyaline spinulose arista x E. spinulosum B. & S. 3. 



Leaves papillose on both sides x E. papillosum Aust. 4. 



Both collected in Saline Co. by Dr. Henry. 



PHASCUM, p. 41. 

 Capsule subglobose, apiculate. 

 Leaf-margins plane or incurved, denticulate.. . . P. earniolicum Web. & Mohr. 1. 



Leaf-margins reflexed, quite entire x P. cuspidatum Schreb. 2. 



Costa prolonged into a long filiform point, 



X P. cuspidatum, var. piliferum B. & S. 



P. earniolicum, in Western Kansas (Smyth's Check List). P. cuspidatum 



and var. piliferum were collected in Saline Co. by Joseph Henry. 



PLEURIDIUM, p. 43. 



Inflorescence autoecious ; upper leaves long subulate. 



Serrulate from the middle upwards x P. Bolanderi Muell. 5. 



Saline Co., sterile, by Jos. Henry. 



