MUSCI. (MOSSES.) (49) 649 
en dry furrowed, with a long and erect (rarely short and ae pedicel. 
pe usually double, sometimes single or none; the exterior of 16 teeth 
like those of Bryum ; the interior a plicated membrane divided men “way ne 16 
cilia, splitting along their middle; their segments divergent ; rudimentary ciliolz 
often present. Inflorescence various.— Plants remarkable ok their globose 
capsule; growing in extensive tufts | on the ground, and on y 
trees ; stems covered with a dense radicular tomentum ; leaves Seanad, more 
or less ete er serrate, papillose on both surfaces, of a ture ; areola 
dense, Sean ti ng; costa percurrent or excurrent. (Named in hoi of 
John Bart: ee earliest nati ive ssoneisonen botanist.) — In the pt species 
the oath is cernuous: p pedicel long and erect 
§1. BARTRAMIA Prorer.— Stems dichotomously branched. 
1. B. i rebar mene “or Hermaphrodite ; tufts compact, bright yellow- 
from a 
broad, sheathing, whitish cas , excurrent, with a scabrous point. — 
ine balpine rocks, White Mountains, New Hampshire. (Eu.) 
2, B. deri, Swartz. Hermaphrodite; tufts loose, extensive, dark-green ; 
ap 
stems slender, 1/-3/ high; leaves remote, patent-recurved from an erect (not 
nae base, lanceolate, carinate, scarcely papillose, recurved on the margins, 
e apex. — Mountains of New England. 
érmis, cecious; tufts large, rather dense, 
inidiotii-gtech ; stems 1/—3! are ‘eaves crowded, spreading, lanceolate-subu- 
late or linear-subulate, crisped when dry, flattish, the costa excurrent ; le 
ston 5 enere abi contiguous to the female.— Shady banks, either dry or 
moist: common. (Tab ( 
§2. PHILONOTIS, Brid. — Stems fasciculately branched. 
4. B. fontama, Brid. Dicecious; tufts extensive, dense, yellowish or 
glaucous-green ; stems elongated (3/-7! high); branches interruptedly verticil- 
late; leaves of two forms, either coro vate-acuminate and appressed, or longer, 
lanceolate and spreading or secund, both reflexed on the margins below and ob- 
pea plicate at the base ; inner pag i of the discoid male flower obtuse, not 
— Wet springy places, in mountain districts. (Eu. 
5. -: calcarea, Br. & Sch. Dicecious; compared with the last species 
(which it very closely resembles), its leaves are longer, more rigid and gradually 
tapering, me arse with a larger areolation and a stronger costa; perigo- 
nial leaves costate to the acuminated apex ; teeth of the peristome not so closely 
articulated. — — Specimens atria between this species (as a 
from Dccieniss ms) and No. 4, were gathered by Danae on wet 
rocks, in the mountains of North Carolina. (Eu. 
6. B. Marchica, Brid. Dicecious ; pene pena forms of B. fon- 
tana; leaves ciaiiac in i sdiapo, spreading or 3 w, lanceolate, not pli- 
cate, mucronate by the excurrent costa ; capsule w nagevsel male flower gem- 
Schwegr.) — Gravelly and springy places. (Eu.) 
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