NEW OR UNRECORDED MOSSES OF NORTH 
AMERICA, J, 
J. CARDOT and I. THERIOT.* 
(WITH PLATES I1-v) 
PHASCUM CUSPIDATUM Schreb. var. Americanum Ren. & Card. 
var. nova.— Costa longe excurrente apice saepius decolora 
varietati piliferum proximum, sed _foliis brevioribus, me < 
magis papillosis pedicelloque brevissimo erecto distinctum 
Varietas mitraeforme Limpr., foliis papillosis similis, differt fol 
majoribus longioribusque, costa minus longe excurrente é 
calyptra conico-mitraeformi. ' 
Wisconsin: Madison, on ground in pastures, clover fields, and fallow 
ground (L. S. Cheney, 1893. Ren. & Card., Musci Amer. sept. ex Stl no. 
267). Missouri: old fields near Emma (C. H. Demetrio, 1891). Illinois: — 
Microbryum Floerkeanum var. Henrict Ren. & Card. in Bot. GAZ. 14:91 
9, from Kansas, leg. Henry, seems to be also a stunted form of the a 
moss. It has also the calyptra cucullate, a character which separates it from 
Microbryum Floerkeanum. 
All the specimens we have received from North America as Phascum 
cuspidatum belong to this var. 4 mericanum. 
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GyMNostomuM cuRVIROSTRE Hedw. var. COMMUTATUM Card 
& Thér. (Hymenostylum commutatum Mitt., Musci Ind. Or., p. 34 
Weista curvirostris var. commutata Dicks., Handb. Brit. Mosses, 
212). 
Newfoundland (Rev. A. C. Waghorne). © 
This variety has long, narrow leaves, 
everywhere long and smooth. In t 
of irregular cells 
papillae. 
and the cells of the areolation are 
he type, the upper areolation is composed 
» rectangular, quadrate, and triangular, with scatter 
GYMNOsTOMUM CURVIROS 
TRE Hedw. var. scaBprum Lindb. 
Musci Scand. 22, ‘ 
* Besides the new species, we shall 
eral species named by 
of w 
describe in this paper and the following se ; 
Renauld and Cardot in the Revue Bryologigque, 1892-1893, i 
hich only short, Provisional diagnoses were published. 
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