No. 5. 



DESCRIPTION OF THE MOSSES AND LIVERWORTS. 



BY W. S. SULLIVANT. 



MUSCI. 



WEISSIE^E. 



GYMNOSTOMDM CALCAREUM, Nees & Homsch. ; Bryol. Europ. Gymnast, monogr., p. 6, t. 3 and 4 : 

 var. perpusilla, foliis erectis ovato-lanceolatis margine crenulatis, capsula pyriformi-ovali. On 

 clayey soil, near San Francisco. 



G. CURVIROSTRUM, Hedw. ; Bryol. Europ. Gymnost. monogr., p. 8, t. 7 and 8. Wet rocks, 

 Leroux's springs, base of San Francisco mountain, Mogollan range. 



WEISSIA VIRIDULA, Brid.; Bryol. Europ. Weis. monogr., p. 5, t. 2 and 3. Various places on *- 

 the ground. 



W. CIRRHATA, Hedw.; Bryol. Europ. Weis. monogr., p. 9, t. 6. On the prostrate trunk of a <c 

 Wellingtonia " mammoth tree grove." 



DICRANE.E. 



CERATODON PURPDREUS, Brid.; Bryol. Europ. Cerat. monogr., p. 5, t. 1 ; var. xanthopus. j 

 Near San Francisco ; appears to differ irom the normal form in nothing but the pale yellow 

 pedicels. 



A large Campylopus (?) was found growing with Weissia cirrhata, but not in a fit state for 

 determination. 



FESSIDENTE^. 



FESSIDENS LIMBATUS, (sp. nov.) : monoicus pusillus acrocarpus ; foliis 8-10 jugis oblongis * 

 hyalino-marginatis apice excepto, lamina apiciali duplicaturam inferne latisime marginatam vix 

 eequante ; capsula sub ovali inasquali cernua ; perist. dentibus maxime introflexis. Near San 

 Francisco ; about the size of F. bryoides, from which it is distinguished by its cernuous capsule, 

 the deep insertion of its peristomial teeth, arid the denser areolation of its leaves, remarkable 

 for the broad margin of their complicate portion. (Plate I.) 



TRICHOSTOME.E. 



TRICHOSTOMOM TOPHACEUM, Brid.; Bryol. Europ. Tricliost. monogr., p. 9,t. 6. Cajon Pass, * 

 Sierra Nevada ; also, near San Francisco. 



T. FLEXIPES, Bryol. Europ. Tricliost. monogr., p. 6, t. 2. Near San Francisco. 



T. CORNICULATTJM, Schwozgr. Suppl. 2, 1, p. 75, t. 118. With the last. 



BARBULA MEMBRANIFOLIA, Schultz; Bryol. Europ. Barb, monogr., p. 17, t. 3. Dry ravines on 

 Williams' fork of the Great Colorado, near the mouth of Santa Maria Creek. 

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