304 BULLETIN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. 



long beaked; spores brown, warty, not spinose. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 21: 

 206. 1894. On the ground: Calfornia. 



254. Physcomitrium acuminatum (Schleich.) Br. & Sch. 1 Autoicous, 

 antheridia terminal on basal branches: plants gregarious, pale green, 

 slender, 10-15 mm. high: stems short, leaves almost radical, rosulate, ob- 

 long-lanceolate, acuminate; vein thick, ending below apex or excurrent into 

 a cuspidate point; marginal cells elongated, in two rows, entire or subser- 

 rulate at apex, lower cells elongated, often brown at angles: seta pale, slen- 

 der, twisted, often bent; capsules small, pyriform, becoming turbinate when 

 dry, with a broad flaring mouth, not contracted below it; neck tapering, 

 often abruptly contracted when dry; mouth bordered by 4-7 rows of nar- 

 row cells, but slightly elongated or thickened, thbse of walls smaller than 

 in P. turbinatum and rounded; annulus double, outer row orange colored, 

 inner hyaline, vesicular, falling in fragments with lid or persistent; lid 

 blunt, conic or apiculate, bordered with orange; spores small, yellow, 

 spinose. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 21: 203. 1894. L. & J. Man. 198 in 

 part. Not common: Central states west to Nebraska. 



255. Funaria calcarea occidentalis Ren. & Card. Differs from the 

 type in the leaves more shortly and broadly acuminate, and the longer 

 pedicel. Bot. Gaz. 15: 43. 1890. Wet mud banks: Oregon City, 

 Oregon. 



256. Bartramia breyiseta Lindb. Tufts 1.5-3 cm. high, very thick, 

 brownish green above, brownish tomentose below: stem dichasially 

 branched, densely foliate: leaves obovate, half sheathing, appressed, pale 

 yellow green, from a slightly shining base gradually narrowed into an 

 erect-spreading narrow somewhat twisted brittle very sharp subulate point, 

 margin plane, acumen toothed; cells of the sheathing part of leaf smooth, 

 elongated rectangular, towards the margins narrower and colored, cells of 

 the acumen much smaller, rectangular to quadrate, sharply mamillose in 

 the corners; costa percurrent, filling the entire acumen: perichastial 

 leaves more sheathing, mostly exceeding the capsule in length: seta 

 rigid, thick, brown; capsule large, erect, symmetric, almost globular, 

 brownish, longitudinally furrowed, thin walled, small mouthed, when 

 empty wide mouthed; lid small, convex, in the middle somewhat elevated; 

 annulus none; peristome none or simple and rudimantary, formed of pale 

 short obtuse irregular teeth. Limpr. Laubm. 2: 538. Crevices of rocks: 

 Ounalaska, Behring Sea. 



257. Bartramia glaucoyiridis C. M. & Kindb. Differs from B. 

 pomiformis in its glaucous green color, sheathing leaves not margined, 

 suddenly short cuspidate, costa often excurrent: monoicous . Mac. Cat. 

 105. On damp rocks: Columbia River, Revelstoke, B. C. 



i This description is given here because that in L. & J. Manual 198 is incomplete. 



