4 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [Jan., 
Has.: California; near San Francisco (Bigelow, Bolander); San Gabriel 
and Pucdens (Allen). 
2. F. bryoides Hepwic: Musc. Frond. 3. 67. t. 29. 
BRAITHWAITE: Br. Moss-Fl. 1.71, t. 10 E.—SULLIVANT: Mosses U.S. 24.—LEsq. & JAMEs: 
Man. 81.—MITTEN: Jour. Linn, Soc. 21. 554, 
CoLt.: DRUMMOND: Musci Am, I. no. es in ae —SULLIVANT: Musci All. no. 185.— 
SuLL. & Lesq.: Musci Bor, Am. 1 ed. 1 
Plants small, gregarious or caieehai cespitose: stems simple or fas- 
ciculate at the base, ascending: leaves 3-many pairs, rather remote, 
lanceolate or oblong lanceolate, abruptly apiculate; border thickish, pale, 
usually conflnent with the excurrent costa; vaginant lamina one-ha 
length with brvader border, inferior lamina narrowed and decurrent; cells 
roundish - sacstag eee ssl 12-16 16-20 », in vaginant lamina 14- 
2020-24,,: flowers monoicous; male numerous, axillary, genmifonm, 
pedicellate, antheridia a small; female terminal, vaginant lamina 
of perigonial leaves broadly ovate, erose, that of the price leaves 
with a broad border: fruit terminal; seta red or purplish, 4-6 mm. long; 
capsule erect, oval or elliptical, brown; teeth cleft one- mattlenieh: navidad 
very scabrous; operculum conic rostrate, short, red ; calyptra cucullate ; 
spores 20- 
n the ground: aoa Macoun); New York (Barron, Peck) ; 
Hap ( 
New Jotsey ee ustin); Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio (Sullivant); Rocky 
Mts. (Drummond); Sierras (Lemmon). 
Var. exspitans ScHimprrR: Syn. Tae 2 ed. 111. 
BRAITRWAITE: ei Mos Fl. 1. 72.—Lesq. z Rooroh Man. 82, 
F. Curnovii Mrrr > sie Linn. sod 21. 
: Plants 2. ee high, more ae oe the species, loosely cespitose 
in broad soft tufts, pale green: stems ranching sparsely by innovations, 
interwoven by rufous purple rhizoids: leaves with a prominent border 
ceasing at the minutely serrulate apiculus: capsule pale, 
Has.: Wet rocks, New River, White Mts., N. H. ( Prof. O. D. Allen). 
%. F. Closteri Austix: Bull. Torr. Bot. Club 5. 21, 
paprebgintee ely Muse. Suppl. 44. t.29.—Lesq. & JAMES: Man. 81,~Mritren: Jour. 
nn 
COLL: Avastin: he App. Suppl. no. 479. 
Plants very minute and almost nmlens, less than 1 mm. _— gre- 
garious: leaves two or three pairs, 
; Costa strong, ceasing below the 
ess irregular at margin and near apex; 
815-20 p, those of the vaginant lamina 14-16 20-40 »: flowers monoi- 
cous or pseudo dioicous; male ge mmiform, attached to the female by 
rhizoids or separate, antheridium single : fruit terminal; capsule erect, 
