No. II.] THIi BRYOPIIYTES OF CONNECTICUT. II9 



In swamps and on sandy banks of streams. Early summer, 

 Hartford: Bloomfield and Farmington, Mrs. Lowe. Fair- 

 field: Darien, Mrs. Loive. New Haven: Hamden (1855), 

 Eaton. 



Arctic America, Canada, and the northern United States ; 

 south in the east to Florida ; found in most quarters of the 

 globe. 



Ref. Eaton, 15, 63. 



Bryum (Dill.) L. 



1. Plants monoicous (synoicous); leaves with a broad border, 



midrib excurrent into a short point B. bimum 



Plants dioicous 2 



2. Midrib vanishing below the apex, leaves not bordered, or 



very indistinctly so B. argenteum 



Midrib excurrent (or frequently vanishing below the apex 

 in B. capillare) 3 



3. Leaves short-cuspidate, distinctly bordered. .. .B. ventricosum 

 Leaves long-cuspidate 4 



4. Leaves bordered, twisted when dry B. capillare 



Leaves not bordered or only faintly so, scarcely twisted 



when dry B. casspiticium 



Br3mm ventricosum Dicks. B. pseudotriquetrum 

 (Hedw.) Schwaegr. 



Wet, swampy places. Early summer. Litchfield : Salis- 

 bury, Nichols. Windham : Canterbury, Mrs. Hadley. New 

 Haven: New Haven (1859), Eaton. Middlesex: Killing- 

 worth, Nichols. New London : Ledyard, Nichols. 



Arctic America, Canada, and the northcj-n United States ; 

 found all over the world. 



Exsic. Holzinger, Musci Aero. Bor.-Amer. No. 246 (as 

 B. pseudotriquetrum). 



Ref. Eaton, 15, 63. 



Bryum bimum Schreb. 



On wet rocks and on the ground in swampy woods. Early 

 summer. Litchfield: SaHsbury, Nichols. Hartford: 

 Farmington, Mrs. Lowe; Plainville, Chamberlain. Tolland: 

 Bolton, Nichols; Ellington, Pease. Windham: Canterbury, 



