648 (48) MUSCI. (MOSSES.) 
tate border; capsule short, oval, pendulous; operculum short, conic-acute.— 
White Mountains, New Hampshire, Oakes. 
rostratum, Sanwngs Stems 3/-1/ high; the sterile branches 
longer, tee mbent or rkweat ——e ee age en hope very short- 
ren he thicken , half as long 
capsule ; aoe’ often 2-5 together. — Along woodland rivulets. (Eu. ) 
9. it. cuspidatum, Hedw. Stems 3/-1/ high, closely tufted, radicu- 
cuminate wi 
rate ; capsule somewhat pendulous, solitary ; operculum convex, scarcely apicu- 
late. — Woods, about the roots of trees: frequent. (Tab. III.) (Eu.) 
Tre XX. MEESIEZ. 
50. MEESIA, Hedw. (Tab. IIL) 
Calyptra small, cuculliform, fugacious. Operculum conic. Capsule apo- 
physated, erect-cernuous, clavate, with a small oblique mouth, very long-pedi- 
cellate, narrowly annulate, Peristome double; the exterior of 16 short obtuse 
teeth, wi ial line ; the interior of 16 carinate cilia, much longer than the 
teeth, with a narrow basal membrane. Inflorescence various: male flower with 
clavate: paraphyses. — Tall and striking species, inhabiting bogs and swam 
remarkable for their slender stems and long pedicels, in habit Bryoid, in shape 
of capsule allied to the Funariex ; leaves of a lanceolate outline, with a 
amplexicaul and preety base ; thé costa imnaeres areole small, compact, 
oblong. — (Named for D. Meese, a Dutch botanis 
1. ME fongistta, 1 rome "era stems 3!-5/ high, tomentose ; 
1 n the margins, serrate, twist- 
Py mae the caper constituting half 
its mak as in the othe species) ; the exterior peristome more or less adherent 
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to the interior; annulus rather aehernyl ie obtuse ; pedicels 4!_5! 
long. — Cranberry marshes, Northe io. — A variety, smaller in all its parts, 
occurs among the mountains of New England. (Tab. Ut.) (&u.) 
2. ML. tristicha, Br. & Sch. Distinguished from the preceding by its 
3-ranked, wider, actus and denticulate a and the dicecious inflorescence, 
with a terminal discoid male flower. in similar places. 
3. MK. amas Hedw. Smaller than No. 1 and 2, moneecious and 
recurved te 
Mountains, New Hampshire, Oakes: St. Paul, Minnesota, Lesquereur. (Eu.) 
Tre XXL BARTRAMIEZ. 
51. BARTRAMIA, Hedw. (Tab. IIL) 
yptra small, dimidiate, fugacious. Operculum small, conic-convex. 
Capsule globular, cernuous, seldom erect or pendulous, exannulate, striated. 
