6 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. | Jan., 
CoLL.: Hooker & WILSON: eee a 1 a reg 39, 40. (aac Sulliv. ms.)—SuULLI- 
VANT: Musci All. no Ras . & Les ci Bor. 1 ed. no. 80 in part.— 
AUSTIN: Musci App. no. 
Plants minute: 1mm. or less high: leaves narrowly oblong-lance- 
olate, undulate; some or all narrowly bordered: capsule thin, erect or 
inclined. 
Hax.: On rocks; widely distributed in the Eastern States and 
Canada; eollacied also in California (Mrs. 8. R. Mann). 
Var. exiguus AusTIN: Musci App. no. 103. 
F, exiguus SULLIVANT: Mem. Amer. Acad. n, gs. 3. . t. 2 B.—Mosses U. 8. 2. —Icon. 
Muse, 36. t. 23.—LEsQ. & JAMES: Man. 84.—MITIEN: Jour. Linn. Soe. 21. 
CoLL.: SULL. & LEsQ.; Musci Bor. Am, 1 ed. nos. 79, ‘aw in part.—AUSTIN : "Muse, 
App. no. 103, 
Plants small : leaves without border except on vaginant lamina: cap- 
sule erect or waeee: operculum conic-rostellate. 
Has.: On rocks, Canada, central and eastern States: Colorado (Bran- 
degee). 
6. F. Ravenelii sre Mem. Amer. Acad. n. s. 4. 171. 
SUILIVANT: Mosses U. S.  24.—Teon. Muse. 39. t. 25.—Lesq. & JAMEs: 6 56 Mereaie 
gi 
CoLi.: SULL. ESQ. Wasi Bor. Am. 1 ed, no, 81.—2 ed. nos 102.— AUSTIN: Musci App. 
pl. no. 481. 
Plants minute, 2-4 mm. high, yellowish or dirty-green, gregarious : 
stem simple: leaves 2-10 pairs,! oblong-lanceolate, acute, minute ly-den- 
ticulate ; border none except in the vaginant lamina of the upper leaves 
of ner stems where it is broad, prominently and irregularly dentate ; 
costa flexuous, hyaline, percurrent;: vaginant lamina one- half length ; 
inferior lamina tapering, reaching the base; cells very small, Su, obscure, 
round quadrate, minutely papillose, each with about two papille: flowers 
dioicous; male plants very small, with 2-3 pairs of leaves: 
rarely with more than 6 pairs: fruit terminal ; 
lowish; capsule oval or oblong, 
nein et at base, with a 
seta 4-5 mm. long, yel- 
when dry urceolate, the cells protuberant ; 
short, inclined beak; spores 10 -13 py. 
p bricks or on the ground in wet l S ty Hill, 
ig ©. Gin Caneae, S. C. (Ra Ra venel) ; Massie, tis “Cr Bon h nell 
7. F. Garberi Lesq. & James: Proc. Amer. Acad. 14, 137 : 
AUSTIN: —— Torr. Bot. Club 7. 5.—Lesq. & JAMES: Man, 86.—Mitren: Jour. Linn. 
Soe, 21, 55: 
Plants aoe 1-3 mm. hi 
ple, rarely dichotomous: leaves 
gh, bright green, gregarious: stem sim 
4-8 
obtuse, rarely short- 
pairs, sometimes falcate, oblong, 
acuminate, the upper four times longer than broad, 
1SULLIVANT says (Icon. Muse. 39): “*7—15 (18—920 in st 
any plants with more than eight. Cf. Ieon. hae, . 3, M Sten my eo ipa meee res 3 
