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



Pleuridium Brid. 



Leaves spreading, upper leaves long-subulate. .P. altemifolium 

 Leaves of sterile shoots closely appressed, upper leaves of 

 fertile shoots abruptly short-pointed P. Sullivantii 



^4 Pleuridium altemifolium (Dicks.) Rabenh. 



c''^ >'' Moist clayey or sandy soil in fields and ditches. Spring. 



u^J^. New Haven: East Haven, /. A. Allen; Hamden and New 

 V Haven (1874), Eaton. 



New England to Wisconsin, south to the mountains of 

 Alabama ; Europe ; Asia. 



Exsic. Holzinger, Musci Aero. Bor.-Amer, No. 227. 

 Ref. Eaton, 15, 61. 



Pleuridium Sullivantii Aust 



Light, sandy soil in fields. Spring. New Haven : Orange 

 (1880), O. D. Allen. 



Connecticut to South Carolina. 



Ditrichum Timm 



1. Monoicous; stalk yellow; fruiting in June D. pallidum 



Dioicous; stalk red; fruiting in autumn 2 



2. Stem leaves imbricated; perichsetial leaves long-sheathing 



D. vaginans 

 Stem leaves spreading; perichcietial leaves scarcely sheath- 

 ing D. tortile 



Aj^jU^Mr: rLDitrichum vaginans (Sull.) Hampe!^ Leptotrichum vagi- 

 nans Schimp. 



Moist, sandy or loamy ground in hilly regions. Autumn. 

 Litchfield : Salisbury, Nichols. Windham : Canterbury, 

 Mrs. Hadley. Fairfield: Danbury, Nichols. New Haven: 

 Hamden, O. D. Allen; New Haven (1855), Eaton. 



New Brunswick to North Carolina, west to Missouri ; 

 Europe. 



Ref. Eaton, 15, 62. 



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:vl\vx.-^v Ditrichum"[tortile (Schrad.) Lindb.'j Leptotrichum tortile 

 e<Lc.")f.t.;. C. Miill. 



l^'tl'M Clayey soil along roadsides and in fields. Autumn. Hart- 

 ford: Glastonbury, Miss Lorena. Tolland: Bolton and 



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