74 ALBURNUS NITIDUS. 



Capsule nearly oblong, almost erect. Lid long-conic, 

 bent, with a round, obtuse apex. 



Pedicle half an inch long and smooth. Oalyptra white, 

 with a dark brown apex. 



Perichastial leaves lanceolate and long pointed. Pere- 

 gonial leaves ovate lanceolate. 



Plant monaecious, fruiting freely. 



ALBURNUS NITIDUS.— (SILVERY MINNOW.) 



BY PROF. J. P. KIRTLAND. 



Bead before the Cleveland Academy of Natural Science, January 17, 1854. 



Form. — Head — Rounded; upper jaw obtuse; lower jaw 

 the longer; mouth opens obliquely upward; eyes large, 

 with the anterior margin extending forward above the 

 angle of the mouth; nostrils double, the anterior orifice 

 the larger. 



Body.— Elongate, cempressed laterally. Tail rather acute- 

 ly bilobate. 



Color. — Upper surface of the head and back brown, 

 thickly interspersed with an iridescence of golden green. 

 Throat, abdomen and sides of the head and body a brilliant 

 silvery luster, with a steel blue stripe extending from the 

 base of the skull, above the pectoral fins, to the tail, where 

 it expands before it terminates, and the lower margin of 

 the stripe merges gradually into the silvery luster on the 

 sides of the body. 



Length 2 to 2^ inches. 



D. 9, P. 14, A. 11, C. 22|. 



Habitat, Rocky River, near Cleveland. 



