386 MUSCI. Encalypta. 



thin, pale yellow, orange above and below, minutely sulcata when dry : teeth usually 

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

 Schimp. Bryol. Eur. t. 199; Wilson, Bryol. Brit. t. 13; Berkeley, Brit. Moss. t. 22, 

 lig. 1 ; SuUiv. & Lesq. Muse. Am.-Bor. Exsicc. 2 ed. 167. 



Monte Dial)lo and Oaklanil Hills (Bolandcr) ; Foit Colville {Lyall) ; mountains of Nevada and 

 Utah {JFatson) ; Colorado {Hall) ; White Moiuitains, and throughout Europe. 



* % Peristome persistent. 



2. E. ciliata, Hedw. Stems h to 1 inch 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 

 excurrent 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 inflexed when dry, spread- 

 ing when moist, rarely Avanting. — Engl. Bot. t. 1418; Bruch k Schimp. I.e., 

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



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

 Oregon (Rail) ; Colorado ( Wolf) ; Lake Superior and Northern New York ; Europe. 



3. E. rhabdocarpa, Schwaegr. Differing in its leaves, often piliferous at the 

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

 cylindrical, brownish with 8 to 16 reddish stria?, and deeply sulcate when dry, 

 annulate; peristome reddish, rarely pale or wanting. — Suppl. i. 56, t. 16 ; Bruch 

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



In the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada ( JFatson) ; Washington Territory (Lyall) ; Arctic 

 America to Colorado ; Europe. 



27. TAYLORIA, Hook. 



Loosely cespitose pereiniials, on the ground, branching, xhizoid-bearing the whole 

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

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

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

 paraphyses. Calyptra niitriform, 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, mostlj' alpine and growing upon decayed vegetable or animal substances. 

 European and South American. 



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

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

 teeth erect-incurved when dry. 



D. HoRNSCHUCHii, Grev. & Am., a European species which has been found in the Eocky 

 Mountains (Dritmmond) and in Oregon (Downie), may be met with in California. It has broadly 

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

 pedicel, a bioad oi>erculum 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 attenuate, at length cleft to the base, involute within the oritice or on 

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

 with capitate summit. — Muse. Exot. t. 173 ; Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Eur. t. 286 ; 

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



