or 
* 
664 eo G. _ Muscr. (MOSSES:) 
ites pedis 5! — 6H Mane leaves reflexed on m the n ins, — (Neckera brachy- 
ull. ae d fences, logs, &e., orming dense brownish- 
— pain Fruits chandlls, (Tab. V.) (.) —s 
Teme XXXL oXLINDROTHECIE. ss 
75. CYLINDROTHECIUM, Bryol Europ. (Tab. V.) 
Calyptra dimidiate, iow; elongated. Operculum conic-rostellate. Capsule 
cylindrical, erect, pediedlla te, annulate. Peristome double ; the exterior 16 lin- 
ear distantly articulated teeth ; the interior 16 narrow carinate cilia, connected at 
the e b: a -yery narrow membrane. Columella usually exserted. Inflores- 
cence ee oe Da =e pares, yg te and usually compressed 
d ae a minute linear trans- 
wide areoiation. (Name Horii adios. a pte and @yxn, a litile case, 
referring to the shape of tHe capsule.) 
* Pedicels reddish. 
Cc. cladorrhizans, Bryol. Europ. Stems 2/-3’ long; sparingly 
iS Siakauabds branched ; leaves oblong-ovate, acute, sake serrulate at the 
concave, indistinctly bicos at the base; operculum conic, with a thick 
iites rostrum. — Woods, on old bogs, in large mats. Conspicuous by the broad 
flat branches, and To foliage, dashed with bright brown; very com- 
mon. (Tab. ¥;) 
2. €. scmaeteny; Bryol. Europ. Separated from No. 1 by its less com- 
pressed, almost cylindrical stems and branches, (Fruits much more abundantly, 
and affects humid situations.) — Margins of swamps, on old logs and roots of 
trees. —Its numerous dark-red pedicels give it a striking charac 
. C. compréssum, Bryol. Europ. Near No. 1, but distinguished = 
its smaller : size ; more compressed branches ; the leaves loosely imbricating, mo 
of trees, on river-banks, subject to inundation, Central Ohio: rare. 
4. C. Sullivantii, (C. Mull.) Bryol. Europ. A more slender species than 
aa of the preceding ; stems and branches elongated, narrow, and quite flat ; 
leayes laxly imbricating, as cibeiaaieats, short-pointed ; annulus er a ; 
opereulum vith a slender acute rostrum. — (Neckera Sullivantii, Mull. Synop 
p- 65, 1850. C. gracilescens, W. P. Schimper, Bryol. Europ. fasc. 46, 47, he 
— On stones, near the surface of the ground; banks of the French Broad River, 
North Carolina. 
%* * Pedicels yellowish. 
5. C. Drummon WE. wens — the size ™ 1, which it 
much resembles; but its stems and bra’ ; leaves not 
so closely imbricating ; teeth of the peniatbeai perforated alone the alii line, 
more distantly articulated ; sporules half the size ; oe say obsolete. — 
. cladorrhizans, Hook. § Wils. in Drum. 2d coll. No. C. Rugelianum. 
W. P. Sch.?)—North Carolina, Ravenel: Texas, Wright. 
