200 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ August, 
toward the base, with a very small or indistinct hypophysis; 
length 5-7 mm., diam. 2-24 mm.; lid conic-acuminate, red 
at margin. 
to us this moss as P. formosum from N. Carolina, Crowdin 
Mount, and Mr. Ch. R. Barnes from several localities of New 
ha 
e have P. Ohioense from Lafayette, Indiana ; summit of Mt. 
Mansfield, Vermont ; Dells of the Wisconsin, Milwaukee and 
Manitowoc, Wisconsin.” Therefore, it is probable that our 
Species is broadly scattered in the United States, where 
hitherto it has been confounded with P. formosum, 1ro 
from Miquelon Island, near Newfoundland, where it was 
gathered by Dr. Delamare. In this s ecies, as in P. gracile, 
the capsule is rounded at base, with a distinct hypophys!s, 
and the marginal cells of the lamellz are in section ovate, 
ar hypophysis and the marginal cells 0 
ed and semilunar in section. 
Pontinalis Howellii.._ Rigid, yellowish green. Stem 10-15 
on bli tee & sean er: 
; §» Subligneous, flexuous, naked below, pinnate 
partly bipinnate. Branches spreading, for the most pa 
arched downward, of a plumose aspect. Stem-leaves be- 
upper leaves sy mm, ] 
n nuch 
a - the lower muc 
smaller, Branch-leay nts Sean Sbia broad ; the 
i te 
es very different, narrowly lanceolatey — 
