VOL. XII. NO. 2.—BOTANICAL GAZETTE,—FEB.., 1887 
A Revision of the North American Species of Fissidens.*—II. 
CHARLES RR. BARNES, 
12. F. polypodioides Hepwic: Muse. Frond. 3. 63. t. 27. 
Hypnum polypodioides Swartz: Prod. 140. 
Fissidens polypodioides Hepwia: Muse. Frond. 3. 68. t. 27.—Sp. Muse, 154. Mis 
use. Recent. Il. 1. 141.—Sp. Muse. 1. 168.—Mant. Muse. 189. —Bry. Univ. 2. 69...— 
Bravvotr: Prod. 57,—ScHWEGRICHEN: pene See pe herd ELLER: Syn: Mus 0.1: 52.— 
SULLIVANT: Mosses U. 8. 25.— Proce, A cad. ae Icon. Muse. re t. 27.— 
me 
Lesa. & JAMES: Man, 88.—MITTEN: tone. Te. Soe. "a 
CoLL.: DRUMMOND: Musci Amer, II. no. 38.—SULL. & ac ieaill Bor, Am. 1 ed. no. 
no, 110. 
m polyp odi oides Swartz: Fl. Ind. Oce. 8. 1772 
ick, polypodioides DE LA PYLAIE: Desy. Touts Bot. 6. 158. t. 38. £. 10.1 
Plants large, 2-5 cm., gregarious, yellowish-green: stems simple, rigid, 
rooting at base only, which is nearly bare: leaves nu merous, scarcely im- 
bricate, lance- -oblong to linear-oblong, obtuse, entire or sub-denticulate 
lamina 4-3 length; inferior lamina not narrowed, not at all or slightly 
decurrent, cells large, 16-24, roundish, pellucid: flowers dioicous; the 
male in the lower axils; the female in the upper axils; archegonia nu- 
revoluble 
HAs.: Moist rocks: Louisiana (Drummond); Georgia (Lesquereuz’, 
sterile; West Florida (Chapman); Cuba ( Wright). 
13. F. subbasilaris mend Sp. Muse. 155; t. 39. ff. 6-9. 
MicHavux: Fl. Bor. Am, 2. 29 beat ing Muse. 1, ng enn apr 189.—Bry. Uni 
2, 694.— Beri omplareer aay ‘Sup 10.—Hampe: Lin 3. 45.— auiareawe: 
Mosses U, S. 25.—Ieon. Muse. re i i. —Monu tire: Wesk i - —Lesq. & JAMES. 
Man, 88.—MrTren: Jour. Lin, “eat 
CoLL.: DRUMMOND: Musci Amer, I. ye “i 0. 42. neonate Musci oa se 
184.—SULLIVANT and LESQUEREUX;: Fates Bor. ee ed. no. 84.—2 ed. no. 
TIN: Musci no. 105, 
Aus : 
Skitophyllum subbasilare De LA PYLAIE: Desy. Jour. Bot. 6. 168. t. 38. f. 11. 
Plants small, 1-2 cm. high, densely and widely cespitose, green 
above, brown and tomentose below: stems simple or branched, erect: 
leaves 12-15 pairs, crisped when dry, oblong, obtuse with a single 
pointed cell at the apex, minutely crenate below, minutely and irregu- 
larly serrate above; border none; costa vanishing below the apex; vagi- 
*Read before the A. A. A. S., Buffalo meeting, August ; a 
Frequent mistakes are made in citing these plates. The are correctly numbered, but 
bya typographical l err o ‘thepensmtly referred to by Dela Pylaie. There is also confusion 
in the paging of this monograph. 
