9^ BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [April, 



open when moist, erect-imbricate and often slightly twisted 

 when dry, rather concave, oblong-subspatulate, narrowed at 

 base, shortly acuminate, plane on the borders, obsoleteh 

 denticulate in the upper part, 2-2.5 mrr >. long, .5-1 mm. 

 broad; costa percurrent or shortly excurrent. Areolation 

 large, hexagonal, cells 2-4 times "longer than broad, thin- 

 walled ; at the margins, 1 or 2 rows of narrow, elongated 

 cells, but not forming a distinct border. External perichae- 

 tial bracts longer, more distinctly bordered, the 2 or 3 inner 

 smaller. Pedicel reddish, 25-45 "mm. long. Capsule brown 

 or rufescent, pendent, finally oblique or subhorizontal, defici- 

 ent into a long attenuate neck, constricted below the mouth 

 after the fall of the convex-apiculate lid. Teeth of the per- 

 istome densely trabeculate ; segments split ; cilia long and 

 appendiculate. The inflorescence seems to be dioecious, the 

 male flowers being unknown. 



Florida: Enterprise, on sandy ground and at base of 

 trees {Fitzgerald), Beauclerc, on decayed logs (F. C. Saw- 

 yer). Louisiana : Pointe-a-la-Hache, on wall {A. B. Lang- 



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This species is readily distinguished from B. capillare, 

 to which it is nearly allied, by its leaves plane on the mar- 

 gins and without distinct border. The brown articulate fila- 

 ments, which arise from the axils of the leaves and perhaps 

 help the propagation of this moss, are generally very copi- 

 ous on sterile specimens, while they are rare or" even want- 

 ing on the fertile plant. 



Fontinalis antifyretica L. var. Oreganknsis. 



ible form, with very slender, soft, pinnate stems, yellowish 

 and shining above, not naked below. Stem-leaves distant, 

 open, lanceolate. Branches cuspidate. Branch-leaves erect, 

 imbricate at the top of the branches. Cells of the areolation 

 very long and narrow. 



Oregon: top of Coast mountains, in swamps, on the 

 roots of trees. {Th. Howell). 



Fontinalis Delamarei.— Dull green, stems 15-30 cm. 

 long, naked below, much divided ; branches irregularly pin- 

 nate, branches erecto-patent, attenuate. Leaves crowded, 

 erect, loosely imbricate, oblong-lanceolate, obtusely acumi- 

 nate, concave, not keeled, slightly incurved on the borders. 

 3-4 mm long, .75-1.25 mm. broad. Cells of the areolation 

 linear-elongated, sometimes rather flexuose, the alar few. 



