Entoslhodun. MUSCI. 337 



At Uniouvillc, West Iliiiiihoklt Mouiituins, Nevada {H'alson); liocky Mountains of Biitisli 

 Anicricni (Druvimoncl) ; EuropL'. 



T. .snitiiATA, Bruch & Scliini|). (Hiyol. Ktii'. t. 28 J, 285), was collected at Fort Colville l)y 

 Lijall. Fertile stems procumbent : capsule brownish red, on an erect pedicel : teeth dark purple, 

 shining, linear-hiuceolate, when dry arcuate-erect or loosely rellexed : columella included. 



28. SPLACHNUM, Kinn. 

 Soft loosely ces[)itosc annuals (ravuly perennial), on the ground or cattle-dung ; 

 rliizoids at base. Leaves remote, spreading, tlio uppermost crowded, broadly 

 obovate-lanceolate, narrowed at base, entire or serrate, the aroolation very loose, 

 Male flowers subdisooiil. Calyptra small, conic, very fugacious. Capsule long- 

 l)edicelled, small, short-cylindrical upon a spongy at lengtli mucli tliickened and 

 subglobose, pyriform or umbrella shaped apojjhysis, dill'ering from it in color ; 

 ()l)erculum convex; annnlus none. Peristome of IG orange-colored linear teeth, in 

 pairs, a[ipresscd-reflexed when dry. Columella persistent. 



A genus of half a dozen speciea in Europe and North America, and another in Tasmania, 



1. S, luteum, Linn. Annual, dioecious; stem ^ inch bigh or less, simple or 

 branched at base : leaves rather large, long-apiculate, entire : capsule on a pedicel 

 an inch long or more, brownish upon a lemon-colored broadly dilated flat-umbrella- 

 shaped apophysis : teeth omnge, many-jointed. — Amoen. ii. 277, t. 3 ; Hedw. Muse. 

 Frond, ii. 48, t. 17 ; Lruch & Schimp. Bryol. Eur. t. 29G. aS'. vielanocaidon, 

 Schwaegr. Suppl. t. 109. 



Rejiorted by Mitten (.lourn. Linn. Soc. viii. 22) as collected at various times in western North 

 America and in the Rocky Mountains, and as varying nuieh in the length of the pedicel and size 

 of the apophysis. It is found in Northern Europe and Kamtschatka, and may range to the 

 mountains of California. 



29. PHYSCOMITRIUM, Hrid. 



Low clustered or loosely cespitoso annuals, on tlio ground ; stem simple or 

 branched at base. Leaves crowded above, ratlicr broad, acuminate, soft and smooth, 

 of large hyaline cells; costa thin, hdlorcscenco monoecious, terminal, the male 

 flowers discoid. Calyptra vesicular, 4angled, 5-lobed at base, with a long straight 

 beak, half-covering the capsule. Capsule ovate- or globosc-pyriform, erect on an 

 exserted pedicel or immersed, regular, with llattish-convex operculum. Peristome 

 wanting. 



About Ifi sppcii'S are known, widely scattered, one-lialf South American. Four sj)ecies besides 

 the following are found in the Atlantic States, and a fourth in the Wahsatch Mountains. 



1. P. pyriforme, Ihidcl. Stems 2 to 5 lines high : leaves more or less spread- 

 ing, s})atulate lanceolate, coarsely serrate above the middle : capsule globose-pyrifonn, 

 exserted on a pedicel 5 to 8 lines long, at length brownish red, the cells bordering 

 the orifice transversely rectangular, in 12 to 15 rows; operculum convex-conic; 

 annulus double. — Bruch & Schimi). Bryol. Eur. t. 299 ; Wilson, Bryol. Brit. t. 7. 

 Gymnostomum j^yriforme, Iledw. ; Engl. Bot. t. 413. 



On Avct banks in Dardanelles Canon and in swamps near San Rafael {Bolandrr) ; very connuon 

 in the Atlantic States ns well as throughout Europe. The largest sj)ecies of the genus. 



30. ENTOSTHODON, Schwaegr. 



Resembling the preceding genus. Loaves very variable in the same species. 

 Calyptra vesicular-cucullate, long-beaked, shining. Capsule exserted, erect or 

 slightly nodding, regular pyriform, with small plano-convex or mrely umbonate 



