MUSCI. (MOSSES.) (17) 617 
nal on a short branch. — Minute terrestrial perennials, with mostly simple stems 
and lanceolate-subulate, continuously costate leaves of'a loose oblong areolation 
at their base, elsewhere smaller, compact and roundish. (Named after Bruch, a 
distinguished bryologist.) 
1. B. flexuosa, Schwegr. Stems flexuose-erect, simple; leaves distant, 
spreading from an oblong base, long-subulate, channelle y denticulaté at the 
nigricans: Whole plant longer; leaves shorter, appressed ; spores larger, 
dark brown.— New England to Florida, and westward; the var. > Raccoon 
Mountains, Alabama, Lesquereux, and Cleaveland; Ohio, Prof: Casse 
- Beyrichiana, Hampe. Has (according to Stoegan the 
leaves and pedicel of No. 1, but a much shorter stem, and the calyptra entirely 
covering the oblong capsule. — Maryland, near Baltimore, Beyrich. (Not since 
detected.) 
3. B. brévipes, Hook. Stems short; leaves as in No. 1, but erect, over- 
tnnin the sccesgaire nares what pyriform sph se pedicel short; spores 
early twice as large as in the first species. — Louisiana, Drummond. 
4. B. brevifo sia ae Size of No. 3; leaves much shorter, broader, 
erect, ae only to the ag of the Pe obovate-oblong ‘and short-pedi- 
celled capsule; spores as in No. 1.— (Bru Mic ope var. 2, Hook & Wils. 
in Drum. ai Oi No. 15 partly. ) Tox Dressed : South Carolina, Rave- 
nel: Texas, Wright. (Tab. 
B. Ravenélii, Wils. mss. Almost stemless ; leaves lanceolate-subu- 
late; costa excurrent and with a scabrous apex; capsule globose-pyriform, ob- 
8-10-lobed at the base.— South Carolina, Ravenel.— (Very near the 
B. Hampeana, C. Mull.) 
B. STEGOCARPI. — Capsule dehiscing by a decid p 
Trinz I. WEISIEZ. 
6. GYMNOSTOMUM, Hedw. (Tab. 1) 
Calyptra cuculliform. Operculum conic-rostrate. Capsule suboval, annu- 
late, a Sette none. ani rescence dicecious : Bs — a 
all, d caense. 
tate leaves oa a ine opaque, rather aden sreviston. (Name from yupvds, 
naked, and ordpza, a mouth ; no peris 
1. G. curviréstrum, Hedw. Stems fastigiately branched ; capsule 
obovate, shining ; r operculum with a Ty oblique rostrum. — Frequent, in dense 
cushions, on wet limestone rocks. (Eu.) 
= G. rupéstre, tei her seen _ the last; capsule oval, and 
In similar situations with No. 1: 
opercu 
variable. (Tab. 1.) (Eu.) 
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