630 (80) MUSCI. (MOSSES.) 
Tre X. TETRAPHIDER. 
26. TETRAPHIS, Hedw. (Tab. IL) 
Calyptra mitriform, large, irregularly plicate, lacerate at the base. Opercu 
lum acutely conic. Capsule subcylindrical, long-pedicellate. Peristome single 
4 id 
re 
often bearing at their apex leafy cup-shaped receptacles filled with lentiform 
pedicelled gemmz ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 3-ranked, costate, with an hex 
onal-rotund areolation. (Name from rérpa, four, and dvs, produced.). 
1. T. pellicida, atti Stems }/-1/ high, closely tufted, reddish be 
low, light green above. — Woods; common. (Tab. II.) (Eu.} 
27. TETRODONTIUM, Schwegr. 
tra large, mitriform, plicate, laciniate at the base, sometimes split on 
one side to the apex. Operculum conic. Capsule oval, exsertly pedicellate. 
Peristome as in Tetraphis, but the teeth cach rter. Inflorescence moneecious : 
rome flower gemmiform, -— Minute bulb-like annuals, growi 
oe from —— —* in habit end structure of the foliage), 
with closel ly y eon vl the base 
re | ye | 1:4 1 Ih} 1 1:. 
sory sometimes trifid at the apex. — (Name from rérpa, four, and d8ar, tooth. ) 
. T. re d Fun mdose processes very rare; pedicel 3!/- 
5! girs mouth of the capsule repand or notched between the teeth. — Damp 
shaded situations, on the ground near the “Glen House,” Gorham, White 
Mountains of New Hampshire, James. (Eu.) 
Trine XI. ENCALYPTESR. 
28. ENCALYPTA, Schreber. (Tab. IL.) 
Calyptra large, iecusterimas en longer than the ca 
, UN or fringed at conic, with a long slender 
subclavellate rostrum. ais i 01 e 
Peristome variable, either absent, single or double. Inflorescence moncecious or 
the larger species of Barbula.— (Name from évxadumrés, covered with a veil, 
in allusion to the remarkably large calyptra.) 
E. ciliata, Hedw. Stems }/-1' high, thick, radiculose, simple or 
sparingly branched; leaves rather large, crowded, recurved-spreading, oblong- 
ovate or ligulate, s y acuminate, slightly concave, rather undulate on the 
margin, somewhat crenulate near the apex ; areolation dot-like, granulose above, 
enlarged oblong and diaphanous below ; costa excurrent into a short point; per- 
istome single, with 16 lanceolate distantly articulated teeth, without a medial 
