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supplement the description in the Manual with the fruit. Inflor- 
escence dicecious? Perichætium sheathing, bracts 3-5mm. lon 
innermost Ree and broken off at tip, outer suddenly subulate, 
pedicels 8-ıomm. long, erect, scarcely twisted, capsules erect, 
straight, exinde: or narrowly ovoid, smooth or slightly wrinkled 
when old, not sulcate, 2-5mm. long, with a straight beak, 1mm 
lon mouth small, operculum conic rostrate, annulus narrow, 
falling with the lid, peristome short, regular, teeth split to mid- 
dle, pale above, striolate below, trabeculate. Spores not seen. 
The base of the leaves as figured in Sullivant's Icones is not cor- 
rect, as the cells next the vein are lax and hyaline, those of the 
basal angles thick-walled and brown, as figured in the Bryologia 
Europaea Supplement T. 1. None of our capsules are quite as 
mature as that figured by Schimper, but one collected by Austin 
in the Catskill Mts. in 1875 is exactly as drawn. 
Dicranum fuscescens, Turner. Summit of Mt. Rogers. On trees, 
alt. 5,719 ft. In dense masses on wet rocks, summit of White 
Top, alt. 5,678. 
Dicranum longıfolinm, Ehrh, Summit of White Top Mt. Fruit- 
ing. Eastern slope of White Top Mt., on trunks of Picea, alt. 
4,800 ft. On twigs and trunks of Picea, alt. 5,678 ft. Fruit- 
ing, also sterile. On wet rocks, southwestern side of summit 
of White Top, alt. 5,678, ft., with Campylopus Virginicus and 
Zygodon excelsus not showing its glaucous green color and 
lustre till dried. On summit and slope of Mt. Rogers. On 
trunks of evergreen trees, alt. 5,000-5,719 ft. Summit of Pine 
Mt. On trunks of Picea Canadensis, alt. 4,900 ft. 
Dicranum montanum Hedw. Slemp Creek (Brushy Mt.) On old 
log in swamp, alt. 2,800 ft. Sterile and rare. 
Onchophorus crispatus (Dicks) Lindb. [Rhabdoweisia denticulata 
(Brid.)] Summit of White Rock Mt. On soil collected on 
white sandstone, alt. 4,400 feet, fruiting abundantly June 22d. 
Summit of White Top Mt., mixed with Didymodon cylindricus, 
fruiting May 28th, alt. 5,678 ft. On wet rocks, Dickey Creek, 
alt. 3,000 ft. Archegonial plants, June 17th. 
Campylopus Virginicus (Aust.) L. & J. Summit of White Top 
Mt. On sandstone (wet), alt. 5,678 ft. Summit of White 
Rock Mt. On white sandstone, alt. 4,400 ft. 
Dicranella heteromalla (L.) Schimp. Eastern slope of White Top 
On ground, alt. 3,000 ft. Along White Top Creek. On 
