Il8 COXXECTICUT GKOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



Throughout North America ; South America ; Europe ; 

 Asia ; Tasmania ; New Zealand. 

 Ref. Eaton, 15, 63. 



Pohlia Hedw. 



1. Plants producing gemmte in axils of leaves, rarely fruiting 



P. proligera 

 Plants not gemmiparous, richly fruiting 2 



2. Basal membrane of inner peristome one-third to one-half 



height of segments P. nutans 



Basal membrane of inner peristome one-fourth height of 

 segments P. cruda 



Pohlia cruda (L.) Lindb. 



Shaded earth and fissures of rocks in mountainous or hilly 

 regions. Early summer. New Haven : Derby (i88i),7. ^. 

 Allen. 



Greenland to Pennsylvania, and westward to the Pacific ; 

 found in most quarters of the globe. 



Pohlia nutans (Schreb.) Lindb. JVebcra iiiitaits Hedw. 



Soil and decaying wood in fields or woods. Early sum- 

 mer. Litchfield: Salisbury, Giluian. Hartford: South- 

 ington, Chamberlain. Tolland: Stafford and Vernon, 

 Nichols. Windham: C2inievh\\ry, Mrs. Hadley. Fairfield: 

 Darien, Mrs. Lowe. New Haven : Beacon Falls and East 

 Flaven, Nichols; New Haven (1874), Kleeberger; North 

 Haven, Evans; Oxford, Harger; Woodbridge, /. A. Allen. 

 Middlesex : Durham, Evans. New London : Ledyard, C. B. 

 Graves. 



Throughout most of Xorth America : a cosmopolitan. 



Ref. Eaton, 15, 63. Mrs. fTadley, 43. 



Pohlia proligera Lindb. 



On earth. Fruit rare, summer. New H.wen : Deacon 

 Falls and Hamden, Nichols; New Haven (1905), Evans. 

 • Widely distributed throughout Canada and the United 

 States : Alaska ; luirope. 



Mniobryum (Schimp.) Limpr. 

 Mniobryum albicans (Wahl.) Limpr. JVebcra albicans 

 Schimp. 



