Bryum. MUSCI. 393 



or oblong-lancoolate, narrowly hordorcd and lower margin sliglitly reflexed, serrate 

 above : flowers rarely bisexual : capsule pendulous upon a strict pedicel, obovate- 

 pyrifbrm, brown ; operculum small, convex, apiculate, persistent : inner membrane 

 adlierent to the orange-colored teetli, the very narrow yellowish processes free, and 

 ciliola3 rudimentary. — Bruch & Schiuip. 1. c, t. 340; Wilson, 1. c, t. 12. Poldia 

 Warenensis, Scliwaegr. Suppl. t. 23G. 

 Streambaiiks 011 Mount Dana, at 9-10,000 feet altitude, almndant (Bolcmdcr) ; European. 



14. B. uliginosum, Bruch & Schimp. Stems cespitose, shortly branched, 3 to 

 7 lines high, with numerous rhizoids : leaves dull green, oval-lanceolate (the lower 

 ovate), narrowly bordered, obtusely serrate above, the lower margin reHexed : llowers 

 rarely bisexual : capsule horizontal or inclined upon a long arcuate pedicel, long- 

 pyriform, somewhat incurved, with minute oblique orange-colored operculum and 

 broad annulus : inner teeth fissured nearly the whole length, ciliolae none or imper- 

 fect. — Bryol. Eur. t. 335 , Wilson, 1. c, t. 48. 



On Monte Diablo (/)?•. Gibbons) ; northern Atlantic States ; Europe. 



* * Timer peristome free, the basal membrane long-'produced ; cUloloi shoH or 



wantliKj : leaves ovate, costa not excurrent. Monoecious. 



15. B. calophyllum, R. Brown. Loosely cespitose; stems short, simple or 

 branched, witii few rootlets : leaves erect-spreading, somewhat succulent, round- 

 ovate, strongly concave, entire with flat margins, Avithout border, and the costa 

 ceasing at or below the obtusish apex : capsule pendulous on a rigid strict pedicel, 

 short-pyriform, with broad persistent apiculate-ctmvex operculum. — Wilson, 1. c, 

 t. 33. B. latifolium, Bruch & Schimp. 1. c, t. 339. 



Santa Barbara {W. L. Foster) ; Arctic America ; Northern Europe. 



* % % Inner peristome free, the basal membrane lonrj-prodiiced, and ciliohr 



(2 to 4) equalling the inner teeth. 



-f- Flmvers bisexual, rarely polygamous : leaves mostly long-cuspidate xoith the 

 excurrent costa. 



16. B. intermedium, Bruch & Schimp. Cespitose, bright green, very fertile, 

 the sterile branches elongated and flagelliform ; stems 2 to 6 lines high, densely 

 radicalose below : lower leaves ovate-, the upper oblong-lanceolate, with subrevolute 

 nuxrgins and long remotely toothed cusp, loosely imbricated : capsule horizontal or 

 inclined, oblong-pyriform with long collum, slightly incurved, not contracted below 

 the narrow orifice, reddish brown ; operculum persistent, acute : annulus separating 

 in fragments. — BryoL Eur. t. 356; Wilson, 1. c, t. 49; El. Dan. xiv, t. 2381, 

 fig. 1. Webera. intermedia, Schwaegr. Suppl. t, 75. 



Crescent City, Del Norte County {Bolandcr), and at various localities in the Sierra Nevada 

 (Bigdow, Brewer, BoJander) ; mountains of Nevada {Watson); from Arctic America to the 

 Athintic States and New Mexico and throughout Euroi)e. Resembling B. paUcsccns, from which 

 it may be known by the bisexual flowers and characters of the capsule. 



1 7. B. cirrhatum, Hornsch. Distinguished by the broader obovate- or obconic- 

 l^yriform pendulous capsule symmetrical and at length contracted below the broader 

 orifice; annulus separating spirally. — Bruch & Schimp. 1. c, t. 357. 



In a meadow near the Calaveras Grove, and in Mono Pass (Bolandcr) ; Europe. Intermediate 

 between B. intermedium and B. bimuin. 



18. B. torquescens, Bruch & Schimp. Distinguished by the much twisted 

 leaves (when eiry), ovate to oblong-lanceolate, entire, with a smooth cus]> and very 

 narrow border, the lower cauline and branch leaves long-lanceolate with reflexed 

 margins : capsule larger, obconic, inclined or pendulous, usually incurved, with 

 acutely apiculate purple operculum. — Br^ail. Eur. t. 358; Wilson. 1. c. 



Oakland (Binrlow); Kast Humboldt J\h)untaius (irutsoti) ; New V.nk and Texas; Europe, 

 Africa, Australia and South America. 



