MUSCI. (MOSSES.) (53) 653 
1,S. ampullaceum, L. Stems }/-2! long; leaves oblong- or obo- 
vate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire or irregularly dentate ; apophysis Were an 
obovate, tapering into the purplish pedicel, and twice or thrice the width of 
yellow capsule. — New England to Pennsylvania: rare. (Tab. IV.) ake ) 
2. S. riibrum, Stems short (3/’-6/') ; leaves spatulate-obovate, long- 
pointed, serrate, somewhat complicate and undulate on the margins ; apophysis 
deep red, very large, umbrella-shaped, 7-10 times as wide as the minute cap- 
sule; pedicels 4/-5! long. — Maine, A. Young. :) 
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58. TETRAPLODON, Br.&Sch. (Tab. IV.) 
Calyptra small, conic, entire, or split on one side and somewhat cuculliform. 
Operculum conical-convex, obtuse. Capsule erect, small, oval-oblong, with a 
solid clavate apophysis tapering into an exserted pedicel. segue cna e 
oubl , at in fours i i 
mella not emergent. Inflorescence moneecious: male flower gemmiform or 
capituleform, axillary or terminal.— A genus scarcely scuba from the last ; 
besides the above characters, the stems are more.compactly czspitose ; the apo- 
and consistence of the two is uniform; the cellular tissue of the leaves not so 
lax ; and the habitat is on animal iidesde or on the dung of carnivorous ani- 
mals, — (Name from retpax)éos, fourfold, and dda, tooth; the teeth of the peri- 
stome “ads at first in fours.) 
status, Br. & Sch, Stems }/-3/ long, radiculose; leaves 
Pa eng remote, oblong-lanceolate, produced into a long flexuous aa ob- 
soletely or distinctly dentate ; apophysis 0 oblon re Sai somewhat wi 
the capsule ; calyptra whitish, conic, cuculliform, descending to the ie: is the 
apophysis. — White Mountains o! ire, B. D. Greene, Oakes: Lake 
Superior, Loring. — A northern species. (Eu.) 
2. WT. australis, Sulliv. & Lesqx. (Muse. Bor.-Amer., No.151.) Re- 
sembling very closely the last species; leaves often with 3-5 large tooth-like 
lobes on each side, sometimes almost pinnatifid, rarely simply dentate or nearly 
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ntire ; apop 
deeply inserted within the capsule’s mouth, the rim of which has angular-rotun 
(not transversely oblong) cellules; calyptra yellowish, elongated-conic, 
split on one side,) descending scarcely to the base of the hem ae apiculate 
Cords — (Splachnum oe Hook. § Wils. in Drum. 2d coll. No. 27 ; 
of Michz., whose plant was from Canada, and most probably belongs to 
ar pian specie ay se wamps, near the sea-coast, New Jersey to Florida. 
—It is doubtful whether this species belongs to the present, or to the last 
genus. (Tab. IV.) 
3. IT. mnioides, Br. & Sch. Stems }/-2' high; leaves erect-patent, 
rather close, elliptic-oblong or gett mineteihte err ae into a long 
flexuous point ; capsule an leer al 
dark red. — Catskill aesciiaes New York, Olney. (Eu.) 
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