Braunia. MUSCI. 375 



1. D. capillaceum, Bruch & Schimp. Tufts dense, silky green above, ferru- 

 ginous below, rut'ous-tomeutose, 1 or 2 inches high : leaves spreading, flexuous, 

 abruptly long-subulate from a dilated somewhat sheathing base, witli excurrent 

 costa, entire : antheridia naked in the upper axils : capsule erect on the reddish 

 pedicel, oblong-cylindrical, regular or somewhat curved : teeth narrow. Bryol. 

 Eur. t. 193 ; Sulliv. in Gray's Manual, 2 ed. t. 2 ; Sulliv. & Lesq. Muse. Am.-Bor. 

 Exsicc. n. 108 (2 ed. n. 161) ; Berkeley, Brit. Moss. t. 22, tig. 7. Swartzia capillacea, 

 Hedw. Muse. Frond, ii. 72, t. 26. 



In the Yosemite Valley, on shelving rocks between Vernal and Nevada Falls (Bolande.r) ; in 

 the Cascade Mountains (Lyall) ; East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada (Watson) ; and from the 

 Arctic regions to Colorado, Lake Superior and the White Mountains. Also in the mountains of 

 Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. 



2. D. inclinatum, Bruch & Schimp. Tufts soft, dull olive-green, darker below 

 than the last, to 1 inch high : leaves narrower, densely crowded, minutely serrate 

 at the apex : male flowers with 2 or 3 perigonial leaves : capsule oval, nodding : 

 teeth broader, purple. Bryol. Eur. t. 194; Fl. Dan. t. 2687; Sulliv. & Lesq. 

 1. c., n. 108 b (2 ed. n. 162). Sioartzia inclinata, Hedw. 1. c. ii. 74, t. 27. 



At Soda Springs, near head of the Tuolumne (Bolandcr) ; Uinta Mountains (Watson) ; and 

 from the Arctic regions to Lake Superior and Newfoundland. Also in the mountains of Europe ; 

 rarer than the last. 



18. HEDWIGIA, Ehrh. 



Stem branched, rooting at base. Leaves in 8 ranks, oblong-lanceolate, sub- 

 coriaceous, densely papillose-hirsute on the back, erose and ciliate at the hyaline 

 apex, nerveless ; areolation very minute, quadrate and rectangular, at the middle of 

 the base long-linear. Flowers monoecious, bud-like. Calyptra conic-mitrifonn, 

 entire at base, hairy or naked, covering only the broad convex or umbonate oper- 

 culum, very fugacious. Capsule globose, immersed, very shortly pedicellate, erect, 

 without annulus or peristome. 

 A single species ; growing on rocks. 



1. H. ciliata, Ehrh. Stems 1 to 4 inches high, dichotomously or irregularly 

 branched, loosely cespitose, pale glaucous-green : leaves spreading or secund, concave : 

 capsule pale brown with a reddish mouth. Hedw. Muse. Frond, t. 40 ; Bruch & 

 Schimp. Bryol. Eur. t. 272, 273 ; Wilson, Bryol. Brit. t. 6 ; Sulliv. in Gray's Man. 

 2 ed. t. 2 ; Berkeley, Brit. Moss. t. 21, fig. 8.' 



Reported as found on redwood stumps (Bolander) ; cliffs of "Williams River, Arizona (Bigeloic) ; 

 British Columbia (Lyctll) ; very common in the Atlantic States and throughout Europe. 



19. BRAUNIA, Bruch & Schimp. 



Stems broadly cespitose, irregularly branched, stoloniferous. Leaves in 8 ranks, 

 ovate-lanceolate, rather firm, smoothish, nerveless, the areolation rectangular, long- 

 linear at the middle of the base. Flowers monoacious or bisexual, bud-like. 

 Calyptra cncullate, smooth, long-beaked, nearly or quite covering the capsule. Cap- 

 sule subglobose to long-elliptic, exserted upon a long pedicel, with conic obtuse 

 operculum, without annulus or peristome. 



A small genus, too near the last and differing from it chiefly in its cucullate calyptra and ex- 

 serted capsule. The only American species is the following, referred to Hcdwigia by Mitten. 



1. B. Californica, Lesq. Loosely cespitose, yellowish green becoming brown, 

 the straight hard stems erect and simple or with short irregular branches : leaves 

 oblong-ovate, hyaline and sometimes setose at the acuminate apex, with reflexed 

 or revolute margins : calyptra mitriform, at length conic-cucullate : capsule turbinate, 



