294 PLANT LIFE OF ALABAMA. 



Other species of the same period are 



Entosthodon drummondii. Funaria serrata. 



Physcomitrum turbinatum langloisii. Polytrichum brachypliyUum. 



Funaria flavicans. 



These are followed, with the advance of spring, by 



Mollia viridula. Bartramia radicalis. 



Mollia longiseta. 



Nearly all of this and the preceding group are confined to the Louisi- 

 auitm and adjoining parts of the Carolinian life areas. 



The tree-covered swainps and rich hammock land shaded by live oak 

 and magnolia, their air saturated with moisture, offer favorable retreats 

 for mosses, many of which are peculiar to this region. Such are 



Fissidens donnellii. Schlotheimia sullii-antii. 



Raplildostegium microcarpum. Cryphaea nervosa. 



Leptodon immersum. Entodon drummondii. 



These grow on trunks and roots of trees. In the deeper recesses of 

 the swamps, on decayed prostrate trunks, are found 



Syrrhopodon floridanus. Leucobryum pumilum . 



Syrrhopodon texanus. Ithizogonium spinifornu'. 



Neckera ludovioiae. Plagiothecium micans. 



On the ground and on stones and old walls are frequent 



Desmatodon plinthobius. Jiryum bicolor. 



Bryum caespiticium. Thuidium microphylhim. 



Bryum nutans. 



In clear swiftly running brooks, attached to roots and submersed 

 timber, Fontinalis disticha is frequent, while the southern Diclielytna 

 subulatum occurs on stones in the Ohattahoochee Eiver. 



Class MUSCI. Mosses. 



Order SFH AGNALKS. Bog or Peat Mosses. 

 Family SPHAGNACEAE. 



SPHAGNUM L. 



Sphagnum cuspidatum (Ehrh.) Russ. & Warnst. 



Floating in spring* and ponds over the State. Mobile County. Raccoon Moun- 

 tains (Lesquereujr). Cnllinan County. 



Louisianian to Allegheniaii area. Louisiana and Florida to C'anad.-i. 



Sphagnum cuspidatum submei sum Schimp. 



Shallow pine-barren ponds. Mobile County. 



Louisianian to Alleghenian area. North to New Jersey and Nova Scotia. 

 Sphagnum cuspidatum torreyanum (Sulliv.) Lesq. & James. 



Bogs. Raccoon Mountains, Morgan County (Lesquereux}. 



Louisianiau area to Boreal region. Florida north to New England and Canada. 



