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margin minutely denticulate with doubly papillose cells; border none, 
except on the lower half of the vaginant lamina of the pericheetial leaves, 
where it begins abruptly and consists of two or three rows of larger, rect- 
angular-rhomboidal cells; costa flexuous, hyaline, ceasing below apex ; 
vaginant lamina one-half length; inferior lamina tapering to the base; 
cells small, 6-8 », obscure, round-quadrate to round-hexagonal ; flowers 
terminal, probably dioicous or pseudo-dioicous: fruit terminal; se 
equaling or exceeding the stems; capsule erect or sub-erect, elliptical, 
ale brown, red at the orifice; teeth are articulate, rufous at base, 
ange yellowish ; operculum -conic-rostra 
On trees, rotten wood, rocks a shells: Florida (Garber, J. 
Donnell Smith, Austin). 
8. F. Donnellii Austin: Bot. Gaz. 4. 151. 
Lesq. & JAMES: Man, 85.—MITTEN : Jour. Linn. Soe. 21. 557. 
Plants minute, 2-3 mm. high, dark green, gregarious: stem simple: 
leaves 3 or 4 pairs, the lower oblong-ovate, the upper much elongated, 
narrowly lanceolate, crenulate-serrate ; border none; costa ceasing just 
below apex; vaginant lamina one-half length; inferior lamina tapering 
and ceasing before reaching base, or reduced to a mere line; cells small, 
12-16 », angular and irregular, each witha single obscure papilla: flowers 
dioicious, terminal; antheridia 4-6, paraphysate; archegonia unknown: 
fruit terminal; seta very short; capsule unknown. 
Has.: Base of a cypress tree in a swamp, Caloosa, Fla. (J. Donnel: 
Smith, Austin). 
9. F. neh AE Wuson: Lond. Jour. Bot. (1845) 4. 196. t. 9. 
wee osses U. 8. 24.—Icon. Muse. 35. t. 22,—LEsq. & James: Man. 86.—MITTEN: 
Soir © pete es Sited ail no. 181.—SuLL. & LEsq.: Musci Bor. Am. 1 ed. no. 78.— 
2 ed. no. 99.—AUSTIN: Musci App. Suppl. no. 480. 
Plants small, densely gregarious, bright green: stems simple or 
branched, sometimes with an innovation just below seta, fertile 1-2 mm. 
high, sterile es leaves 4-12 pairs (the fertile stems with rarely more 
than 6), the lower oval, the upper oval-oblong, obtuse, entire; border 
none; costa barely reaching the apex, or vanishing below it; vaginant 
lamina two-thirds length; inferior lamina tapering and ending above 
sion cells pellucid, round hexagonal, distinct, 10-14: flowers dioi- 
cous, terminal; antheridia 4-6, paraphyses few: fruit terminal; seta 
light yellow, 2-3mm. long; capsule thick, oblong, obconic at base; teeth 
short, orange below, divisions aa granulose ; operculum conic, beak 
very short; spores large, 20-26 » 
Has.: On wet rocks or stones: vie agalga Pa. (James); Ohio, 
Cincinnati (Lea),Sugar Grove (Sullivant), Clifton, Clarke county, (James) ; 
Canton, II. ( Wolf); eee ( Hall). 
