386 ^^f^'^^'J- Knraljpta. 



tliin, pale yeHow, orange above and below, minutely sulcate when dry : teeth usually 

 none, or very irregular, short and obtuse, pale. — Muse. Frond, i, t. 18; Lruch & 

 Schimp. Bryol. Eur. t. I'JD; Wilson, iiryol. Brit. t. 13; Berkeley, JJrit. Moss. t. 22, 

 fig. 1 ; Sulliv. it Lesq. Muse. Ani.-l)or. Exsicc. 2 ed. 1(17. 



Monte Diablo and Oakhuul Hills {Boluiukr) ; I'ort Colvilh. (Z,»/r(//) ; mountains of Nevada and 

 Utah {Watson) ; L^olorado (Hall) ; White Mountains, and tluonghout Europe. 



« * Peristome jJCi'^iatent. 



2. E. Ciliata, Hedw. Stems A to 1 ineh high, loosely cespitose, branched : 

 leaves bright or pale green, soft, spreading, crowded, oblong-ovate or ligulate, 

 shortly acuminate, slightly concave, margin somewhat undulate, the costa slightly 

 exeurrent or ceasing below the subcrenulate apex ; areolation very granulose above : 

 calyptra lanceolate-lobed and fringed at base, pale yellow : capsule on yellowish 

 pedicels, smooth, long-cylindric, at length reddish brown, without annulus : teeth 

 usually narrowly lanceolate, orange-colored, horizontally inllexed when dry, spread- 

 ing when moist, rarely wanting. — Engl. Bot. t. 1418; Druch <t Schimj). I.e., 

 t. 200; Wilson, 1. c, t. 13. Leersia ciliuta, Hedw. Muse. Frond, i, t. 19. 



Yosemite Valley, near Nevada Fall, and banks of Russian Eiver near Ukiah {Bolaadcv) ; 

 Oregon (ffall) ; Colorado ( JVolf) ; Lake Superior and Noi tliern New York ; Europe. 



3. E. rhabdocarpa, Schwaegr. Dillering in its leaves, oftini piliferous at the 

 apex ; calyptra slightly jagged at the base and scabrous at the apex ; capsule ovate- 

 cylindrical, brownish with 8 to IG reddish stria-, and deeply sulcate when dry, 

 annulate; peristome reddish, rarely pale or wanting. — Su])pl. i. 56, t. 16; Bruch 

 & Schimp. 1. c, t. 204 ; Wilson, 1. c, t. 32 ; Sulliv. in (hay's Manual, 2 ed. t. 2. 



In the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada ( Watson) ; Washington Tei litory {Lyall) ; Arctic 

 America to Colorado ; Europe. 



27. TAYLORIA, Hook. 

 Loosely cespitose perennials, on the ground, branching, rhizoid-bearing the whole 

 length. Leaves erect-spreading in several raidvs, soft, ovate-lanceolate, clasping, 

 acute, costate, coarsely serrate above, of large thin parenchymatous cells. Flowers 

 terminal ; the male discoid, of numerous short-pedicelled antheridia and clavate 

 paraphyses. Calyjjtra mitiiform, cleft at one side. Capsule long-pedicelled, decur- 

 rent into a long thick clavate collum of the same color, erect, regular, becoming 

 brownish, with convex-conic operculum and no annulus. Peristome of 16 linear- 

 lanceolate entire or at length divided teeth, very hygroscopic, reflexed when dry. 

 Columella persistent. 



A small genus, mostly alpine and growing upon decayed vegetable or animal substances. 

 European and South American. 



DissoDON, Grev. & Arn., is a nearly allied genus, growing on the giound, and distinguished 

 by obtuse entire somewhat obovate leaves, the male flowers bud-like, and the acute or truncate 

 teeth erect-incurved "when dry. 



D. HoRNSCHUCHil, Grev. & Arn., a European species which has been found in the Kocky 

 Mountains {Drummond) and in Oregon (Doivnic), may be met with in California. It has broadly 

 oblong or obovate green and shining leaves, the long-clavate capsule erect upon a shoitish thick 

 jiedicel, a broad operculum borne upon a tall .stout persistent columella, and truncate bifid teeth. 



1. T. splachnoides, Hook. Stems 1 inch high, erect: leaves imbricated, pale 

 green, more or less obtuse and serrate : capsule on a reddish pedicel 1 or 2 inches 

 long, oblong-cylindric, as long as the narrower collum ; operculum long-conic : teeth 

 very long and atteiniate, at length cleft to the base, involute within the orilice or on 

 drying circinate-flexuous and reflexed, pale purple : columella exserted, liliform, 

 with capitate summit. — ]\Iusc. Exot. t. 173 ; Bruch &. Schimp. I5ryol. Eur. t. 286 ; 

 Fl. Dan. Suppl. t. 44. Ilookeria aplachnoides, Schleich. ; Schwaegr. Suppl. t. 100. 



