BARTRAMIACE^E.| 203 (Bartramia. 



2. BARTRAMIA Hedw. 



Descr. Muse, frond, ii, in (1789). 



Stem erect dichotomous branched, the cuticle of small cells. 

 Leaves in 8 rows, opake, lanceolate or lineal-subulate, papillose ; cells 

 small rectangular. Capsule globose, striate, sulcate ; peristome rarely 

 none or simple, teeth 16, endostome a narrow basal membrane with 

 16 carinate processes shorter than the teeth, finally separating into two 

 divergent legs, cilia rarely present. Inhabiting the ground or rocks. 

 Der. after John Bartram, of Pennsylvania, who sent mosses to Dillenius. 



CLAVIS TO THE SPECIES. 



Leaves smooth on both sides. Oederi. 



papillose. 



Leaves not sheathing at base. 



Leaves rigid, capsule regular, erect. stricta. 



crisped, capsule irregular, inclined. pomiformis. 



sheathing at base. 



Seta straight. Leaves plane at margin. ithyphylla. 

 short and arched. Leaves revolute at margin. norvegica. 



Sect. i. OREADELLA C. Muell. Stems fastigiate branched. Leaves 

 complicate-carinate, revolute at margin, smooth. 



i. BARTRAMIA OEDERI (Gunn.) Sw. 



Synoicous ; in large dull green tufts. Leaves lanceolate, smooth, 

 patenti-recurved, revolute at margin, carinate, serrate at apex. Capsule 

 small globose. (T. LXXVI, B.) 



SYN. Bryum foliis striatis acuminatis reflexls, capsulis sphczricis subnutantibus, maturitate 

 striatis OEDER Fl. dan. II, p. 9, t. 478 (1769). 



Bryum Oederi GUNN. Fl. norveg. n. 1005 (1772). 



Bryum pomiforme /?. Oederi VILL. PI. Dauph. iii, 878 (1786). 



Bryum lacerum VILL. op. c. 879. 



Bartramia gracilis FLOERKE, SCHRAD. Journ. Bot. ii, 171 (1799). SM. Eng. Bot. t. 1826. 

 WAHLENB. Fl. lapp. 363 (1812), Fl. carpat. 354 (1814). HOOK. TAYL. Muse. brit. 86, 

 t. 23 (1818). HOOK. Fl. scot. P. 2, 140 (1821), Br. Fl. ii, 67 (1833). GRAY Nat. arr. br. 

 pi. i, 750 (1821). C. MUELL. Synops. i, 508 (1849). HOBK. Synops. 132 (1873). 



Mnium gracile FUNCK Fasc. crypt. IV, p. 93. 



Bartramia Oederi SWARTZ in SCHRAD. Journ. Bot. ii, 181, t. 3 B, f. 5 (1800). BRID.'MUSC. 

 rec. II, P. Ill, 136, t. 2, f. 9 (1803), Sp. muse. Ill, 86 (1817), Mant. 116 (1819), Bry. 

 univ. ii, 46 (1827). WEB. MOHR Bot. Tasch. 176 (1807). ROEHL. Deutsch. Fl. iii, 

 89 (1813). SCHWAEG. Suppl. I, P. II, 49, t. 59 (1816). MART. Fl. cr. Erl. 58 (1817). 

 FUNCK Moost. 36, t. 24 (1821). HUEBEN. Muse. germ. 510 (1833). DE NOT. Syllab. 99 

 (1838), Epilogo 264 (1869). BR. SCH. Bry. eur. fasc. 12, p. 12, t. 3 (1842). RABENH. 

 D. kr. fl. ii, S. 3, 190 (1848). WILS. Bry. brit. 282, t. 23 (1855). SCHIMP. Synops. 420 

 (1860), 2 ed. 542. BERK. Handb. br. m. 171, t. 16 (1863). MILDE Bry. siles. 239 (1869). 



