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Eurynchium Br. & Sch. 



1. Stalk smooth 2 



Stalk rough 4 



2. Mosses growing on earth, rocks, or logs in moist woods 3 

 Mosses growing on wet rocks in brooks or springs 



E. rusciforme 



3. Leaves spreading; branches attenuate E. strigosum 



Leaves appressed-imbricated; branches short, julaceous.. 



E. diversifolium 



4. Leaves distinctly papillose; median cells 4-6 times as long 



as broad E. graminicolor 



Leaves smooth or only slightly papillose; median cells 

 6-10 times as long as broad E. hians 



Eurynchium strigosum (Hoffm.) Br. & Sch. Hypnum 

 strigosum Hoffm. 



Gravelly soil or rocks, roots and old logs, in open woods. 

 Autumn. Tolland: Elhngton, Pease. Windham: Canter- 

 bury, Mrs. Hadley. New Haven: East Haven, Eaton; Ham- 

 den, Pease; New Haven (1855), Eaton; Orange, Nichols; 

 Oxford, Harger; Woodbridge, Eaton. Middlesex : Killing- 

 worth, Nichols. 



Arctic America, Canada, and the northern United States ; 

 Europe ; Asia ; Africa. 



Ref. Eaton, 15, 66. 



Eurynchium diversifolium Br. & Sch. Hypnum diversi- 

 folium Schimp. 



Soil and rocks in mountainotis woods. Late autumn. 

 Fairfield : Huntington, Nichols. New Haven : East Haven, 

 Cramer; Hamden and New Haven (1866), Eaton. New 

 London : Waterford, C. B. Graves. 



Ontario and New England to British Columbia, south to 

 Louisiana ; Greenland ; Europe ; Asia. 



Ref. Eaton, 15, 66. 



Eurynchium graminicolor (Brid.) Ren. & Card. Hyp- 

 num Snllivaiitii Spruce. EuryncJiium SulUvantii Jaeg. & 

 Saucrb. Bryhnia graminicolor Grout. 



