636 (386) MUSCI. (MOSSES.) 
inva posed i” *nnta and hat drata cal jules: 
, com cellules ; capsule rotund-oval, 
its mouth ‘email ; teeth of the peristome often divided to the base; annulus large, 
unrolling. — (Muse. Alleghan., No. 135.) — On rocks, ‘Penis rain and south- 
ward. (Tab. I.) 
ie m6ndii, Hook. & Wils. Somewhat larger than the sa 
fens leayes linear-lanceolate, acute, crisped when dry; teeth of the 
stome more or less perforated, inserted below the mouth of the givsacical 
capsule; annulus none. — On trees, Southern States 
Trrr XV. GRIMMIEZ. 
36. pdt i etd. & Br. & Sch. (Tab. IL.) 
Tl +} 1. 
f the capsule, conic-mitriform and 
lacerate at the base, or cuc culliform and entire at the base. Operculum 6 ee 
convex, papillate or shortly catia deciduous with the columella 
Capsule roundish-oval, oval-oblong, or obovate, wide-mouthe d, immersed, with a 
short erect pedicel. Peristome single: teeth 16, lanceolate, cribrose. Inflores- 
cence moncecious: male flower gemmiform. — Growing in cirenlar more or less 
compact tufts, on rocks (chiefly mountainous) ; stems simple, or dichotomously 
branched and fastigiate; leaves of a rigid and rather brittle texture, crowded, 
reading, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, concave below, channelled above, usually 
he : 
diaphanous. — (Name from oxi¢a, to split, the base of the calyptra being la- 
ciniated.) 
1. S. apocarpum, Br. & Sch. Loosely cxespitose ; mr }-1!' long, 
upper leaves usually with white points; capsule e eeth of peri- 
stome sometimes entire, purplish-red; annulus none ; catytil neo at the 
— On rocks, very common. — Foliage blackish-green : subject to numerous 
leit dependent on locality. (Tab. II.) (Eu.) 
2, S. maritimum, Br. & Sch. More robust than the last, densely 
tufted ; leaves longer, narrower, more rigid, never hair-pointed, the margins 
plane, the costa stouter and shortly excurrent; capsule obovate, truncate; spo- 
rules twice as large; calyptra the same.—On rocks near the sea, Eastport, 
3. S. confértum, Br. & Sch. Resembles No. 1 exceedingly ; oC more 
compact; leaves less lurid, their margins not so recurved ; capsule oval o 
roundish, of a thinner texture, paler-colored, almost pellucid ; teeth of the peri- 
stome more cribrose and lacerated, and of an orange color; calyptra the same. — 
New England, Oakes.— A variety with obtuse leaves occurs on the White 
Mountains. (Eu.) 
Near the preceding, but has larger and 
sical perichetial leaves, with a long, flexuous, dentate, pellucid 
hair-point ; capsule penned ealyptra cuculliform.— (Mem. 
Art. and Sci. n. ser. 4, p. 170.) —Dry rocks, Santa Fé, N. Mexico, Fendler. 
