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Stem bright red ; h 



20. B. rubiginosum, Hook. f. 

 elongate. Leaves distant, 

 neous, lax, erecto-patent, 

 slightly acute, deourrent, 



wes elliptic. 



and Wils. Stems rigid, 

 yellowish-green, membra- 

 apiees recurved, elliptic, 

 nerve vanishing, areolatiou 



pellucid. In wet places (barren specimens only). 



39. AULCOMNION, Schwjhgeicshbn. 



Furroiced moss. In allusion to the furrowed dry capsule. 

 Key, No. 49. At the roots of trees. 



1. A. palustre, Schw^gchk. Stems 2-4iu.long, besot almost 

 to the summit with ferruginous radicles. Leaves 

 flexuose, twisted when dry, linear-lanceolate, margin 

 reflexed, apex erose, denticulate. Capsule ovoid or 

 oblong, sub-cylindrical, cernuous, short neck, sulcate 

 when dry ; peristome double ; lid convex, short beak. 

 V r ar. Stems slender, leaves crisped. Formosa (Barren 

 specimens only, with pseudopodia). 



40. BARTRAMIA, Hrowa. 

 Named in honour of John Bartram, an American botanist. 

 The English name is apple moss, common in Alpine and 

 sub-Alpine localities. Key, No. 45. 



A. Bartramtdula. Capsule gymnostomous. 



1. B. pusilla (glyphocarpa), Hook. /. and Wils. Stem 



scarcely two lines in height, the very short stem grow- 

 ing _ from a creeping stolon. Branches few, sub- 

 fasciculate, curved, slender. Leaves erecto-patent, 

 very small, ovate, slightly acute, cells lax, sub-entire, 

 with a faint vanishing nerve ; perichsetial, short, 

 erect. Capsule reddish-brown, pendulous, and globose; 

 fruitstalk short, arcuate at apex, pale \ lid sub-conical. 

 Brown's Kiver, Mt. Wellington. 



B. Philonotis. Capsule with peristome, striate ; with short branches 

 of unequal height (fasciculate), male flowers discoid. 



Leaves distant, serrulate, margins flat. 



2. B. remotifo/ia, Hook./, and Wils. Stems Jin. short, 



slender, not thicker than fruitstalk, fasciculately 

 branched; branches short, slender, recurved; leaves 

 glacous, distant, spreading, loosely crisped when dry, 

 lanceolate-acuminate, serrulate, margin plane ; narrow 

 pellucid excurrent nerve ; perichsBtial longer, erect. 

 Fruitstalk stout, long ; capsule sub-erect. Philonotis 

 appressa, Mitten. Brown's Eiver, Elliott Eivulet. 



