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IV. Guembelia. 

 Lamina above 2-4-stratose. 

 Calyptra cucullate. 

 Leaves hair pointed. 



Basal cells quadrate 6. tenerrima, 188. 



Basal cells rectangular .... G. commutata, 145. 

 Leaves not hair-pointed, blunt or hyaline apiculate. 

 Teeth entire, annulus simple, indistinct . . G. sulcata, 186. 

 Teeth irregularly lacerate or bifid, annulus com- 

 pound, triple G. unicolor, 146. 



Calyptra mitrate. 

 Leaf margins plane. 



Hah- point very rough, lid straight beaked 

 Hah* point faintly denticulate, lid obliquely 



beaked . 



Leaf margins recurved. 

 Walls of basal cells sinuate 

 Walls of basal cells smooth . 

 Lamina having only the margin 2-4-stratose. 

 Leaves muticous or hyaline, apiculate. 

 Costa reaching the hyaline apex, dioicous . 

 Costa vanishing far below apex, monoicous 

 Leaves hair-pointed. 

 Annulus wanting. 



Calyptra mitrate, covering whole capsule 

 Calyptra cucullate .... 

 Annulus present. 



Cells of leaf base elongated (1 : 4 to 1 : 8) 

 Cells of leaf base short (1:2), borders plane 

 Cells of leaf base short, borders recurved 

 Lamina of a single layer of cells 



The descriptions of GO. cinclidodontea C. Mull., crassinervis C. 

 Mull., tenella C. Mull., and Mannice C. Mull, are incomplete and as no 

 authentic material is at hand they are not included in the key. See Ap- 

 pendix, nos. 182, 183, 184, 184a. 



G. leucophsea, 144. 

 G. sarcocalyx, 190. 



G. Pennsylvania, 144. 

 G. ovata, 143. 



G. elongata, 185. 

 G. Coloradensis, 143. 



G. calyptra ta, 144. 

 . G. montana, 145. 



G. Donniana, 142. 



G. alpestris, 146. 



G. microtricha, 187. 



. G. mollis, 189. 



RHACOMITRIUM, p. 147. 



I. Branches fastigiate. 

 Leaves with a short hyaline point 

 Leaves muticous. 



Costa with 2-4 lamellae at back 



B. Sudeticum, 149. 

 B. patens, 147. 



