MUSCI. (MOSSES.) (71) «671 
horizontal surfaces, it assames an upright and rig growth, and becomes H. 
oe and H. Carolinianum, Mull. Syn (Eu.) 
. W. arceanieaeonl spent: C. Mull. Moneecious; growth close and en- 
fonetie anches short, recurved ; leaves shining, bri ight green or yellowish, 
narrowly bing anol, concave, obsoletely mask sein ope more or 
less symmetrical, erect or inclined; ciliole o peristome often “absent. 
(Leskea adnata, Micke. ) atid of trees, in the Southern Shaiis 
27. Wi. cylindricarpum, Mull. Syn 1851 Dicecious ; stems 
Prager Br pea branched ; leaves narrowly lanceolate, with a long-atten- 
uated s te point, bifariously imbricated, falcate-secund, ecostate; capsule 
of the inner peristome rudimentary. (Muse. Alleghan. No. 60. Leskea tenuiros- 
tris, W. P. Sch.; Ed. 1, 1848.) — Grows in close, ents shining mats on 
logs, in woods, Alleghany Mountains and Central Ohi 
28. HI. recvirvans, Schwegr. Moneecious ; Keil is palish-green shining 
mats, fruiting abundantly ; leaves bifariously imbricating, ‘cavaie- lente! late from 
a constricted base, secund-falcate, strongly serrate near the point, with two faint 
costee at the base ; pene short-oval, horizontal-incurved. — Decayed logs, Alle- 
ghany Mountains. Very common, and variable in size. 
29. TH. albulum, C. Mull. Mon s; stems and branches flat ; leaves 
lax, spreading, bifarious, Gh, way serrulate and subsecund, 
with two very short costz at the base; capsule oblong, cernuous. (H. subsim- 
plex, Hook. § der cae Alleghan.) — Moist places, on the ground and on 
decayed wood. — all Moss, with delicate pellucid foliage, varying from 
dark to Sey ag: difficult to distinguish from small forms of H. re- 
curvans : the alar cellules less distinct and inflated 
§ 10. LIMNOBIUM, Bryol. Europ. — Main stems prostrate, irregularly branched, 
ascending : leaves varying from orbicular to elongated-lanceolate, shortly unicostate 
or obsoletely bicostate ; cellules oblong or linear : IO lg a cer- 
nuous : operculum hemispherical, apiculate, or short- 
30. Hi. eugyrium, Bryol. Europ. (Muse. Bor.-Amer. No. 303.) Mo- 
es main-stems — ett decal nia irregularly wees leaves 
broadly , shortly acuminate, concave, more 
or a complica and contorted, secund, subfaleate, sid oe the ex- 
-< arn 
cernuousincurved ; annulus very broad. (H. palustre, Tame i in phe 
Nat. Sci. 1855. Limnobium rufescens, Schimp. ined.) — White Mountains, ee 
‘ilapehise, Oakes, James. Smoky Mountains, Tennessee, poate — H. palustre, 
‘i » Bryol. Europ., caidas wad 8 — ee 2 Apne mtens within 
our limits, has no (Eu.) 
31. H. lite Dickson. Monnens’ somewhat larger than the preced- 
ing; branches thicker and more obtuse, not so divided; leaves flaccid, widely 
spreading, subsecund, roundish, apiculate, entire or e iculate at the apex ; 
capsule short, turgid. ntai ke 
(Eu. 
