170 KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



LEUCOBRYUM, p. 90. 



Capsule apparently lateral (by innovations). 



Leaves erect, spreading, oblong-lanceolate * L. vulgare, Hampe 1 



Plants smaller, half as long, leaves shorter and more crowded. 



Capsule smaller, pedicel shoi-ter L. minus Sulliv. 2 



L. vulgare, sterile, Bourbon Co. (Bennett). L. minus, m Smyth's Check 

 List. 



CERATODON, p. 92. 



Stems 2-3 (sterile often 10) cm. long; teeth articulate for three- 

 fourths of length * C. purpureus, Brid. 1 



Collected in Shawnee (Fields and Smyth); Ford (Cragin); Saline, sterile 

 form (Henry); Riley (Kellerman); Wyandotte (M. Reed). 



SELIGERIA, p. 96. 

 Seta straight when moist. 



Leaves sharp pointed; cells above rectangular; spores measure 



10-14 mmm S. pusilla, Br. & Sch. 1 



Reported from eastern Kansas ( Smyth's Check List). 



PHAROMITRIUM, p. 100. 



Capsule immersed, globose, without peristome, enlarged at ori- 

 iice after the falling of the lid; leaves soft, 

 loosely areolate. 



Calyptra oblique, plurilobate x P. subsessile Sch. 



Saline ( Henry), with young form named by Austin P. exiguum. 



DIDYMODON, p. 104. 



Leaf-cells below i-ectangular. 



Leaf base red; margins above revolute D. rubellus, Br. & Sch. 1 



Also a new species, D. species nova? Ren. & Card.i D. rubellus ( Smyth's 

 Check List); and D. species nova? Saline Co. (Henry). 



LEPTOTRICHUM, p. 105. 



Dioecious; leaves slightly twisted. 



Stem leaves spreading; perichaetial leaves hardly sheathing. 



X L. tortile Muell., var. vaginans Lesq. 1 

 Stem leaves imbricate; perichaetial leaves long, sheathing. 



X L. vaginans Sch. 2 

 Monoecious: plants short (5 mm.) 



Teeth cylindrical; nodose, articulate, leaves spreading. 



* L. pallidum Hampe 5 



L. tortile, var. vaginans ( Smyth's Check List). L. vaginans. Saline 

 (Henry). L. pallidum, Wilson ( McClung); Saline, sterile form, 

 with leaves often broken at tip ( Henry); Labette, a doubtful 

 sterile form (Newlon). 



TRICHOSTOMUM, p. 108. 



Lamina composed of one layer of cells, papillose. 

 Margins reflexed or undulate, entire; annulus none. . . x T. tophaceum Brid. 1 

 Margins plane or incurved; costa reaching apex, or excurrent, 

 serrate above; base of leaf yellowish, with thick- 

 walled rectangular cells x T. crispulum Br. 3 



'Botan. Gaz., Vol. XVII, p. 81 (1892). 



