66 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Exsic. Underwood & Cook, Hep. Amer. No. 85 (as L. 

 setacea) . 



Ref. Eaton, 15, 70. Evans, 28, 172; 30, 187, pi 57. 



Blepharostoma Dumort. 

 Blepharostoma trichophyllum (L.) Dumort. i^\ 

 On shaded banks and rocks, also on rotten logs. IMay and 

 June. Tolland : Stafford, Nichols. Fairfield : Sherman, 

 ^ Evans. New Haven : Beacon Falls, Evans; New Haven, 

 \A^ /• •^- Allen; Orange, Evans. Middlesex:- Killingworth 

 (1875), Hall. 



Greenland to Alaska, and south to New Jersey, Colorado, 

 and California; Europe; Asia. (<UC. '4-o.<i^ . ^ '^ S ck '♦'C-. 

 Ref. Eaton, 15, 70. Evans, 28, 171. 



Ptilidium Nees 



Stems erect or ascending; stem leaves distant or loosely- 

 imbricated P. ciliare 



Stems prostrate; stem leaves dfeijsely irtiiwicated 



P. pulcherrimum. 



Ptilidium ciliare (L.) Nees. Blepharo'sia ciliaris Dumort. t^lS* 

 On earth among rocks. May and June. Litchfield: 

 Cornwall and Goshen, Underwood. New Haven : East 

 ^^> Haven, Evans; Hamden (1877), /. A. Allen; Meriden, Miss 

 ^ Lorcns. Middlesex : Durham, Evans. New London : Nor- 



wich, C. B. Graves. 



Greenland to Alaska, and south to New England and Min- 

 nesota; Europe; Asia. (J^jlC ^^^*-»^ S'^tTo^^lr-. 

 Ref. Eaton, 15, 70. Evans, 28, 172; 32, 44. 



Ptilidium pulcherrimum (Web.) Hampe. Included under 

 P. ciliare by many writers. \<\'\ 



On shaded rocks, trunks of trees, and rotten logs ; rarely 

 ^■^ti» on banks rich in humus. May and June. Litchfield : Corn- 

 wall and Goshen, Underwood; New Milford and Salisbury, 

 Evans. Hartford: Burlington and Canton, Nichols; Tol- 

 land: Ellington, P^a.y^; Stafford, iY/c/10/.y. Windham: Can- 

 terbury, Mrs. Hadley. Fairfield: Redding and Sherman, 

 Evans. New Haven : Beacon Falls, Evans; Bethany, Ham- 



