MTJSCi. (mosses.) (59) 659 



squarrose, somewhat ligulate-acuminate from a broad suberect amplexicaul base, 

 crenulate on the margins by the large protuberent cellules ; costa indistinct, sel- 

 dom extending half-way. — Leskea fragilis, llook. ^ Wih. in Di-um. Mosses, Id 

 coll. No. 101. — Hypnum triste, Mull. Synop. Muse. 2. p. 478.) — Very common 

 throughout the United States ; on trees, particularly the Hornbeam. Fruit un- 

 known. (Eu.) 



66. L.ESKEA, Hedw. ; Bryol. Europ. (Tab. V.) 



Calyptra cucuUiform. Operculum conic, acuminate or rostrate. Capsule 

 oval or cylindrical, pedicellate. Peristome double; the exterior 16 lanceolate- 

 subulate teeth; the interior 16 narrow cilia, as long as the teeth, arising from a 

 carinate membrane. Annulus persistent. Inflorescence monoecious or dioecious. 

 Stems prostrate, irregularly or subpinnately branched ; leaves of the stem and 

 branches uniform, ovate-lanceolate, more or less acuminate, mostly costate, 

 smooth or papillose, with close subrotund or oval areolation. (Named for N. G 

 Leske, an early German botanist.) 



1. li. poIyca.rpa, Hedw. Monoecious ; stem 2' long or more, irregularly 

 branched; branches ascending, |-'-l'high; leaves ovate-lanceolate, patent or 

 eecund, recurved on the margins below, strongly costate to near the apex ; cap- 

 sule cylindrical, slightly curved; operculum conic, acute; perichsetial leaves 

 striate. — Eoots of trees, in wet places. (Eu.) 



2. li. obsctira, Hedw. Monoecious ; smaller than No. 1 ; ramification 

 the same ; leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, rather obtuse, opaque, the margins be- 

 low recurved ; costa reaching to the apex ; capsule erect, oblong-elliptical ; oper- 

 culum short, conic ; cilia of the inner peristome perforated. — On trees, within 

 reach of floods : fruits copiously. (Tab. V.) 



3. li. microcarpa, "W. P. Sch. in litt. Monoecious; stems subpinnate- 

 ly branched ; leaves ovate or oval, concave, long and slenderly acuminate, spread- 

 ing, rather lax ; costa reaching nearly to the point ; capsule oval-oblong. — (L. 

 nervosa. Muse. AUeglian., No. 69.) On roots of trees, in wet woods, near Mont- 

 gomery, Alabama. — Very near the European L. nervosa, but a more flaccid 

 plant, its leaves more spreading, not so recurved on the margins, nor so attenu- 

 ated at the point.; the costa extending higher up ; capsule not cylindrical ; peri- 

 stome smaller and lighter-colored, the interior more imperfect ; and mainly 

 the inflorescence different. 



4. Li. rostra,ta, Hedw. Dioecious ; branches erect, crowded, fasciculate, 

 terete ; leaves closely imbricating, ovate-lanceolate, long and slenderly acumi- 

 nate, papillose on both surfaces, the margins broadly recurved below ; costa pel- 

 lucid, vanishing below the apex ; capsule oval-oblong ; operculum rostrate. — 

 Woods, in dense and extensive mats, on the base of trees : frequent. (Eu.) 



5. li, 1 (leiltiC1lla.ta, Sulliv. Dioecious ; branches ascending, crowded, 

 somewhat compressed; leaves closely imbricating, slightly secund, concave, 

 ovate, suddenly and rather long acuminate, denticulate, ecostate ; areolation 

 oval; capsule oblong; operculum obliquely rostrate. (Muse. Alleghan., No. 

 62.) — Base of trees; not uncommon in the Western States: fruit very rare, 

 found only in Southern Alleghany specimens. — A small species. 



