MUSCI. (MOSSES.) (81) 631 
line, capsule smooth; annulus none; calyptra fringed at the base: monccious; 
male flower deninniforen, axillary. — Rocks, Lake Superior, Agassiz: Jefferson 
2 ocarpa, Schwegr. Differs from the last by its longer- 
pointed or siete leaves, and longitudinally ribbed capsule; annulus present; 
calyptra not fringed at the base ; peristome and inflorescence the same. — British 
America, Drummond. (Tab. II.) (Eu.) 
- COMMIT Nees & Hornsch. Stems more slender than in No. 
3 leaves subsquarrose, ovate-lanceolate, gradually long-acuminate, concave, 
rt on the margin; areolz very small; costa excurrent; capsule smooth; 
peristome none ; annulus simple ; base of the calyptra uneven, not fringed : mo- 
neecious. — ritish America, Drummond. (Eu.) 
4. E. streptocarpa, Hedw. Stems more elongated than in No. 1; 
leaves not so spreading, ligulate, costate to the ro tuse or cucullate apex ; cap- 
sule spirally ribbed; peristome double; teeth 16, filiform, nodose; annulus 
Pen taml oe spinulose at the apex, ecthinis at the base; inflorescence 
dicecious. — British America, Drummond.— The Alleghany specimens usually 
“aa me this species are without fruit, and hence doubtful. (Eu.) 
29. SYRRHOPODON, Schwegr. (Tab. IL) 
Calyptra large, campanulate-conic, rostrate, cloven on one side. Operc 
conic, with a a rostrum. Capsule elliptic-cylindrical, 2 
without a medial line, short, nearly horizontal, inserted below the mouth of the 
capsule. Inflorescence dicecious or moncecious. — Perennial plants (the tropical 
representatives of ce pn 5 on densely czespitose simple or dichotomously 
comagrsiie 3 and costate”eh ted-ligulate leaves, from a whitish 
e areolze, which elsewhere are minute, 
opaque, and grantilose. _ (Name from: avpporos, connivent, and d8av, a tooth, 
alluding to the horizontal position of the teeth of the ga 
1. 8S. Floridanu ra Sulliv. Stems about 1’ high; leaves erect-patent 
from an amplexicaul base; the margins convolute, ieatien more or less nar- 
rowly bilamellate, caibiet, serrated; costa ceasing at or below the obtuse 
apex. (Syr. albovaginatus, Hook. §- Wils. in Drum. 2d coll., No. a ) — Northern 
shore of the Gulf of Mexico; also Florida: frequent. (Tab 
an XI. ZYGODONTES. 
30. ZYGODON, Hook & Tayl. (Tab. IL) 
Calyptra small, setaimeces smooth, oblique. ig se rostrate 
from a conic base. Capsule’ pyriform, apophysate, striated, on a rather short 
pedicel, immersed o Serna Peristome either eka, siiala’ or absent ; when 
present, constructed as in (the nearly related genus) Orthotrichum. — Berens 
species, ing on trees or on rocks, in large patches; stems with 
branches, fertile at the apex; leaves linear-lanceolote, carinate, continuously 
