656 (56) MUSCI. (MOSSES.) 
Trmr XXV. CRYPHHZESR. 
61. CRYPH ZA, Mohr. (Tab. V.) 
Calyptra conic-mitriform, papillose at the apex, s 
cence moneecious: antheridia oval, with long pedicels and short paraphyses. 
— Rather slender Mosses on trees, with leafless creeping stems and 
at or pendulous ‘iid a éiteinapls densely leafy branches, bearing in lines 
or clus umerous perichetia enveloping the capsule. (Name from kpudaios, 
pefeinaet in aifais to the concealed capsule.) 
» glomerata, W.P. Sch. The ascending branches nearly simple, 
1! ini leaves crowded, when dry appressed, when = recurved-spreading, 
ovate-acuminate, minutely-serrulate at the apex, semi-costate, with a minute oval 
areolation; annulus broad; perichzetial leaves Aorckoe aye! cuspi- 
date. — (Daltonia wilco var. Hook. § Wils. in Drum. Muse. 2d coll. No. 
99.) — Southern States: common. — Larger than the European C. "hence 
rid., with more crowded craig leaves, much shorter peristome, and larger 
spores. (Tab. V.) 
2. C. mervosa, Hook & Wils. Has the aspect of No. 1; leaves when 
. dry erect, not appressed, with recurved margins ; costa extending to the point; 
- calyptra split on one side; annulus narrow; perichextial leaves longer-lanceo- 
late and pone on the back. — Grows with the last. 
3. C. mdita, Nees. (in Neuvied Tray.) Stems pendulous, loosely 
pinnately- Tae d; branchlets recurved at the apex; leaves distant, oblong- 
lanceolate, carinate, the lower ones complicate, oblique ; costa heavy, e xcurrent, 
the stem: 
as long as the teeth. — Floating in water, and attached to the ce branch- 
es of trees, Wabash, Fox, and Black Rivers, Illinois. — Scarcely 
very probably Dychelyma subulatum, or a closely allied species. 
Tris XXVI. LEUCODONTE. 
62. LEUCODON, Schwegr. (Tab. IV.) 
- Calpe aiabiiale; large, clasping the perticel, Upercatam conic-rostrate. 
Peri 
stome double ; ‘the exterior 16 linear-acuminate, whitish, granulated teeth more 
or less perforated along the medial line; the interior leeds 1 ogee) fb a a simple 
annular membrane extending $ the length of the teeth. Inflc 
— Species of moderate size, with a filiform and leafless creeping primary peters 
and numerous terete nearly simple branches, densely clothed with ovate-acumi- 
te lea’ (Name composed of Aevxds, white, and ddey, tooth, from 
the color of the outer peristome.) 
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