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Il6 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bllll. 



Ulota ulophylla (Ehrh.) Broth. U. crispa (Hedw.) Brid. 



Trees in the woods. Summer. Litchfield: SaHsbury, 

 Nichols. Windham : Canterbury, Mrs. Hadley. New 

 Haven : North Haven, Nichols; Oxford, Harger. Middle- 

 sex : Chester and KilHngworth, Nichols. New London : East 

 Lyme and North Stonington (1894), C. B. Graves. 



Newfoundland to Wisconsin, south to Georgia ; Alaska ; 

 Europe ; Asia ; Canary Lslands. 



Ref. Eaton, 15, 63. 



Ulota crispula Bruch. 



Trees in the woods. Summer. Hartford : Hartford, Mrs. 

 Lowe. Windham : Canterbury, Mrs. Hadley. New Haven : 

 Woodbridge (1866), Eaton. Middlesex: Saybrook, Eaton. 



Same range as the preceding species. 



Ref. Eaton, 15, 63. 



FAMILY FUNARIACE^ 



Ephemerum Hampe -„>. /iVi-Wla, \ Ai^3 .12'/'^^ 



1. Leaves without a midrib 2 



Midrib present, percurrent or nearly so E. crassinervium 



2. Leaves obscurely serrulate; stomata present in upper half 



of capsule E. megalosporum 



-r Leaves distinctly serrulate; stomata restricted to base of 



O^A. , capsule E. serratum 



f^A^*"**^ Ephemerum megalosporum (Aust.) Salm. Micromitrium 

 ^(s,\^^ megalosporum Aust. 



Wet or periodically inundated earth. Autumn. New 

 Haven: Orange (1891), Evans. 



Connecticut to Georgia. I 



Ephemerum serratum (Schreb.) Hampe. 



Wet, clayey earth. Autumn. New Haven : East Haven, 

 Evans; New Haven, Nichols; Orange, Eaton; Oxford, Harger. 

 New London : Norwich (1888), 5^?c/i^//. • 



Probably throughout temperate North America; Europe. 



Ephemerum er£tssinervium ( SchM^aegf 7) "CTTvTuH. ' 

 Damp earth in fields. Autumn. New Haven: East 

 TIavcn (1891). Evans. . ' • .) Vk'^'^' '" ■ 



X^cw England to Minnesota, south to Florida, 



