Calharima. UUSCl. 



401 



■^ -I- Caj>s„lcrr.rNnoiis, incurved, tvith oblique opcrailum and double peristome, 

 3. B. ithyphylla, J?ii.l. Tufts mure or \vs: compact, l.ri-ht ycllowisl. grccu ; 

 stems h to 2 inches high : leaves eiect-sprea.liiij,'or erect when .Irv, setaceous-subulate 

 Jrom a white sluniny sheathing base, coarsely serrate, scarcefy broa.ler than the 

 costa : ilowers bisexual : cai,sulo spherical, when dry oblong, incurved and <leenly 

 sulcate ; operculum broa.liy conic, blunt: red.lish brown teeth horizontally closin- 

 the orifice when damp, twice longer than the yellow processes. — En-d. liot 't 17Io" 

 Lruch i Schimp. 1. c, t. 31 7 ; Wilson, liryol. Brit. t. 23 ; Berkeley, Brit. Moss. t. 16,' 

 iig. 1 . 



Pn.?n"M"""/ .f^^'"-;' -■'';".'"'^:"t {noJo.mlrr), tlu> alpine form, with short stems nnd pedicels; Cas- 

 Suope nT.II mil tin Iri'S '^' ^^^'"'^'^ ' ^^''"'^ ^'"""t'^"'^' '^"^^ throughout no.'theru 



l.n!" 'rf'T"'"'"' ?I<''';^"'K'-o«;>n- in lar-e glaucous green tufts 1 to 3 inches high, the loug- 

 lo ver eoViTr' "'T'\ '"."'" '''•■■""' ■"" ^•'^■■''tl'i"S. and n.on.eeious with the male and femaTe 

 Ph r);T "a° ' \ *7''-' '="""'^'^"t i"t» a cone when damp, has been found on the Columbia 

 A In (^^':'^' ^f;''/«). ;;;;'l >s common m the Atlantic States as well as in northern Europe and 



1 r. o" \ ''^ *• ?^ ^"n^ V V''^^' ^- "'■"^"'^ ' S^Ji^vaegr. Snppl. t. 58, 5i. ; I'.ruch & Schimp. 

 J. c, t. 3iy ; \\ ilson, 1. c. ; Ijerkeley, 1. c. fig. 2. 



* * Bvnnches subvert irillnfe or fasclrlrd : leaves small, lanceolate, pellucid- 

 ^flowers momncious or dia-nons, the male discoid when diawioas : peristome 

 double.— Philonotis, Muell. {Philonotis, Bridel.) 

 4. B. fontana, Brid.. Stems 1 to G inches high or more, in broad yellowish 

 or glaucous green mats ; branches interruptedly verticillate : leaves of two forms, 

 the smaller ovate, obtusely acuminate, appressed, the larger ovate-lanceolate and 

 shortly awned, spreading or secuiid, bisulcate at base, all serrate and very papillose • 

 ilowers dioecious; inner perigonial leaves obtuse, ecostate : capsule ovate-globose 

 Avith purple subulate-tipped teeth, the ciliohe about equalling the processes. — Bruch 

 cV; bchimp. 1. c, t. 324 ; Wilson, 1. c. Bryumfontanum, Swartz : Engl. Bot. t. 390 

 rlulonot IS fontana, Brid. 



riJnV^T/" ^ m'' .''»;;''f '•"ck«(/;"^'^"'^C'), an.l apparently common in the Siena Nevada; Fort 

 Colville (/,/„//) ; ,n the IJocky Mo.u.tains fnuu I'.ritish An.erica to Colorado and Utah, and fre- 

 quent in the mountains eastward. Found throughout Europe, in India, and Pata-onia 

 le.L'';v!nf!n\.^''''''l^.t'''''"'-' i\'l*'^/i"g"is,'"^*l f'O'n the last by longer sul'^alcate secnnd 

 eeth of the p,-nstonu. not subulate-tipi.ed and the ciliolin short. It has been foun.l in the East 

 Airit s ?T-"'k' N---''^;.7,"'.i" tl- IHntas iW.t.on), in the White Mountai nd 

 Alk^gha es and m Europe ; cuelly m h.nestone districts. - Ihvol. Eur. t. 32.5; Wilson, I. c. 



39. CATHARTNEA, EInh. 

 Densely clustered or cespitose pereiini;ds, on tlie ground ; llowering stems erect, 

 simple or branched, from a creeping rhizome. Eeaves lanceolate or oblong, undulate! 

 crisped when dry, not sheathing, the narrowly bordered margin acutely "serrate, the 

 narrow costa sparingly lamellate on the ui)per side, areolation very denselv roun.1- 

 hexagonal. Flowers monoecious or dioecious, the male cup-shaped and proliferous 

 from the centre. Calyptra cucullatc, narrow, naked, spinulose at the apex. Cai)sul^ 

 terete, cylindrical or oblong, slightly incurved, erect or cernuous on a long pedicel ; 

 operculum convex, longdjeaked ; annulus none. Peristome single, of 32 short rigid' 

 ligulate obtuse slightly incurved teeth, confluent at base, and adherent above to a 

 membranous expansion of the summit of the columella closing the orifice of the 

 capsule. — Alrichim, Beauv. 



Nine si)ecies are described, four European, of which three are North American, (me peculiar to 

 JMorth America and three to tropical America, and anotlier at the Cape of Good Hope. 



