MUSCI. (MOSSES.) (11) 611 
1S. ee Dill. Dicecious ; stems robust, 6/-18! long; 
a 4-6 in a fas tie nei obtuse ; stem-leaves spatulate, not 
bri ; branch- saad ad » ovate, and entire at the apex; 
ida i stomata in its wall. — a ibe mars 3; common. — A large species, dis- 
tinguished from its congeners by the sharp papille on the back of the leaf near 
the apex, and by the striae on the walls of the cortical utricles of the branches. 
(Tab. I.) (Eu. 
2. mpactum, Brid. Diccious? stems erect, 2/-5! high, densely 
EP with one eine of siete —: branches 2- se in a fascicle, short, 
wde 
» erect; b rved-s ng, broadly mar- 
shied, truncate and toothed at thé apex ; utricles with smal 1 pores, those ‘at eel 
point of the narrowly acuminated perichextial leaves not fibrillose. — (S. stric- 
tum, Muse. Alleghan., No. 201.) — Springy places on high mountains, Southern 
States, psc Curtis, Buckley. (Eu.) 
. 8. contértum, Schultz. Somewhat stiff and dark-colored; stems 
4'-6! ees ; branches attenuated, more or less canvas, branch-leayes rather 
eae ovate-lanceolate, of a firm texture ; utricles very narrow, with a ro 
mall pores on each side. — Cranberry ten, retin Ohio, Lesquereux. (in. ) 
4. S Lesctirii, Sulliv. (Muse. Bor-Amer., No. 6.) Aspect same as 
that of small forms of No. 1; ramification and mode of growth loose; branches 
2-3 in a fascicle, distant; stem-leaves lingulate, obtuse, the utricles fibrillose ; 
branch-leaves es truncate ar rw at the apex, the ducts cunei- 
orm-ellip f the leaf; perichsetial leaves quite 
large, when flattened oval-ovate; capsule oblong-globose, blackish, much ex- 
serted. ae t sandy places among the mountains of iio Dismal 
, Lesquereux. 
Swamp, 
S. témnerum, Sulliv. & Lesqx. (Musc. Bor:-Amer., No. 11.) Stems 
2'-3! high, cxspitose; branches crowded, deflexed; stem lanai lainves , Ovate- 
lanceolate, the illose ;_ branch-lea: imbri ; 
tricles ample, with a few large pores ; ducts nearly cuneiform-elliptic, approach- 
ing the concave surface of the leaf; perichz ovate-subulate, undulate 
on the convolute margins above, the utricles mostly not fibrillose; capsule 
scarcely emergent. — Margins of rivulets; Raccoon Mountains, Alabama, Les- 
quereux 
6. S. hitmile, Schimper. Czspitose; stems 1/-2! high, with 3 layers 
of cortical utricles; branches crowded, spreading, 2-3 in a npn branch- 
leaves ovate-lanceolate, the upper half horizontal, truncate and dentate at 
i narrow. — margined ; utricles broad, with large pores. caaiaas Flor- 
Lesquereux. 
among the Lookout Mountains, 
7. S cyelophytium, Sulliv. & Lesqx. (Muse. Bor.-Amer., No. 5.) 
Stems 2/—3/ long, k, turgid, flaccid, with only one layer of cortical utricles, 
mostly simple, ke with a few scattered branches, not in fascicles ; leaves pale 
enish-white, narrowly margined, somewhat constricted at base, closely imbri- 
17.) New Orleans, Drummond: mountains of Alabama, Lesquereux. — (This 
