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  ^^90. 
  \ 
  BOTANICAL 
  GAZETTE. 
  4 
  

  

  with 
  scarcely 
  thickened 
  walls. 
  Capsule 
  exserted 
  on 
  a 
  short 
  

   pale 
  pedicel, 
  small, 
  leptodermous, 
  smooth, 
  yellow 
  or 
  pale 
  

   brown, 
  .75-1 
  mm. 
  long, 
  .35-.50 
  mm. 
  broad; 
  lid 
  convex- 
  

   apicuJate. 
  Peristome 
  orange-red, 
  teeth 
  patulous 
  when 
  dry 
  

   papillose, 
  perforated, 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  lacerate 
  at 
  apex. 
  Calyp- 
  

   tra 
  cucullate. 
  Male 
  flowers 
  unknown. 
  

  

  Oregon: 
  Mt. 
  Hood, 
  moist 
  bluff 
  towards 
  the 
  snow-Hne 
  

   \L,. 
  -T 
  . 
  Heiiderson.) 
  

  

  „.™^ 
  ^*^^^' 
  ^"® 
  ^^ 
  *^^^ 
  smallest 
  of 
  the 
  genus, 
  is 
  closely 
  

   allied 
  to 
  G. 
  alpcstrts 
  Schleich., 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  is 
  distin<mish- 
  

   able 
  by 
  the 
  smaller 
  size, 
  the 
  shorter 
  capsule 
  and 
  the 
  cells 
  of 
  

   the 
  areolation 
  larger, 
  with 
  scarcely 
  thickened 
  walls. 
  

  

  Phacomit 
  

  

  A 
  re- 
  

  

  markable 
  form, 
  characterized 
  by 
  the 
  stems 
  often 
  nearlv 
  

   simple, 
  the 
  pedicel 
  very 
  short, 
  3-4 
  mm. 
  long, 
  the 
  capsule 
  

   small, 
  pale, 
  not 
  shining, 
  and 
  the 
  paler 
  peristome. 
  Perhaps 
  

   a 
  subspecies. 
  

  

  Oregon 
  ; 
  Lost 
  Lake, 
  on 
  rocks 
  (Z. 
  F. 
  Henderson). 
  

  

  Cosciaodon 
  Renauldi 
  Card. 
  —In 
  small, 
  compact, 
  gray 
  or 
  

   greenish 
  tufts. 
  Stems 
  erect, 
  simple 
  or 
  dichotomous, 
  short, 
  

   3-8 
  mm. 
  long. 
  Leaves 
  small, 
  erecto-patent 
  when 
  moist, 
  

   imbricate 
  when 
  dry, 
  broadly 
  ovate-lanceolate, 
  rather 
  sud- 
  

   denly 
  acuminate, 
  .75-r 
  mm. 
  long, 
  .35-.70 
  mm. 
  broad 
  ; 
  costa 
  

   stout, 
  canahculate, 
  running 
  out 
  into 
  a 
  long, 
  flexuous, 
  hyaline, 
  

   slightly 
  toothed 
  hair; 
  borders 
  plane, 
  very 
  entire, 
  rarely 
  sia- 
  

   uate 
  or 
  subdenticulate 
  toward 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  hair-point; 
  

   cells 
  of 
  the 
  areolation 
  lax, 
  quadrate, 
  hyaline 
  at 
  base, 
  round- 
  

   ish-quadrate, 
  chlorophyllose, 
  thick-walled 
  in 
  the 
  upper 
  part. 
  

   Capsule 
  immersed 
  on 
  a 
  very 
  short 
  pedicel, 
  small, 
  globose 
  

   when 
  young, 
  then 
  ovate-oblong 
  and 
  becoming 
  oblong-sub- 
  

   cylindrical 
  and 
  truncate 
  at 
  base 
  when 
  old 
  and 
  empty, 
  lepto- 
  

   dermous, 
  soft, 
  I 
  mm. 
  long, 
  .3S-.50 
  mm. 
  broad; 
  Hd 
  conic, 
  

   acuminate. 
  Peristome 
  orange 
  or 
  yellow, 
  teeth 
  granulose, 
  

   very 
  cribrose 
  or 
  cleft 
  into 
  3-4 
  coherent 
  legs. 
  Calyptra 
  lar^rel 
  

   sulcate, 
  lobulate 
  at 
  base, 
  covering 
  nearly 
  the 
  whole 
  capside' 
  

   or 
  at 
  least 
  descending 
  to 
  below 
  the 
  middle. 
  Male 
  flowers 
  

   gemmiform, 
  axillary 
  below 
  the 
  female. 
  

  

  Kansas: 
  ^^Ym& 
  conuiy 
  {Joseph 
  Henry) 
  . 
  Colorado 
  (J/r5. 
  

   Roy, 
  kindly 
  communicated 
  by 
  Mrs. 
  E. 
  G. 
  Britton). 
  

  

  Seems 
  to 
  be 
  closely 
  allied 
  to 
  C. 
  7?a 
  m 
  Aust. 
  (of 
  which 
  we 
  

   have 
  seen 
  no 
  authentic 
  specimen), 
  but 
  according 
  to 
  the 
  de- 
  

   scription 
  given 
  in 
  Ltsquereux 
  and 
  James's 
  Manual, 
  155, 
  this 
  

   last 
  species 
  has 
  the 
  costa 
  " 
  vanishing 
  below 
  the 
  slightly 
  erose- 
  

   dentateapex 
  of 
  the 
  leaf" 
  and 
  the 
  teeth 
  of 
  the 
  peristome 
  "en- 
  

  

  