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4. M. conjugata Lindb. Monoecious; thalltis 8.0 cm, 

 long, 1 — 2 mm. wide, commonly dichotomous, the branches 

 short, linear, narrower in some parts, convex above, the mar- 

 gins more or less distinctly undulate, the midribs and margins 

 pilose with rather long, straight, divaricate hairs; the hairs 

 usually double and very frequently with sucker-like In-anches 

 at their extremities; midribs covered above with two. below 

 with 3-6 rows of enlarged lax cells. (Er]u)io(/i/iKf fiirrafu, 

 Dumort., Mefzr/eria fnirafa Dumort. in part.) 



Hah. — On shaded siliceous rocks and trunks of living trees, etc- 

 Catskill Mts., N. Y. (P. T. Clere), Cal.? (Bolauder). (Eu.) 



Bib. — Lindb. Monog. Metzg. n. 8, f . G ; Hep. Europ. p. 139 (sub. M. 

 fnrcata). 



Z>eKn.— Brit. Jung. t. 56, f. 2; Ekart, t. I, f. 1. 



Exsic. — Hep. Bor.-Amer. No. 117. 



VI. FOSSOMBRONIA Raddi. 



Involucral leaves 5-6, minute, subulate, coherent with the 

 perianth almost its entire length. Inner involucre terminal or 

 by innovation doi-sal on the main stem, subcampanulate, the 

 large mouth open, crenate-lobed. Calyptra pear-shaped, rup- 

 turing early. Capsule globose, irregularly 4-valved. Elaters 

 short, uni-trispiral. Androecium naked, borne on the back of 

 the stem. Vegetation pseudo-foliaceous, the lobes of the thal- 

 lus-like stem leaf-like, succubous, somewhat quadrate, 3-5 lol)ed, 

 flaccid. Named for Sig. Cav. Vitforio Fossonibroni, an Italian 

 minister of state. 



* Leaves ntnsihj horizo)ifal. 

 f Plant medium size or large. 



1. F. pusilla Nees. Plant small; stems 1.3 — 2.1 cm. 

 long, usually subsimple yet forked-divergent or subdichotomous 

 at the apex; leaves obliquely spreading, the lower undulate- 

 lobed, the lobes barely mucronate, the upper angular, 3-4 lobed, 

 crisped, the lobes narrower: inner involucre obconic, dentate; 

 crests of the spores angular, subparallel. (Jini</ermaiiia jnf- 

 siUa L.) 



Hah. — On damp ground, mostly in unfrequented paths. (Eu.) 



Bib. — Syn. Hep. p. 467 ; Hep. Europ. p. 14. 



Delin.—Br'it. Jung. t. 69 ; Ekart t. V, f. 38 ; Sulliv. Mosses U. S. t- 

 VII. 



Exsic— Yle^. Bor.-Amer. Xo. 120. 



