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Dicranum fulvellum {Dixon) Smith 

 Crevices of rocks. Mt Mclntyre. Mrs Britton 



Dicranum montanum Hedw- 

 Decaying wood and base of trees. Common. Fertile. 



Dicranum viride Schimp. 



Campylopiis viridis S. & L. 



Prostrate trunks of trees and base of living trees. Usually sterile, but 

 fertile specimens were found at South Meadow and on the trail to 

 Wilmington notch. Easily known by its broken leaves. Mrs Britton. 



Dicranum flagellare Hedw. 



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 Decaying wood. Common. Easily known by the slender upright 



flagellae which form young branches and suggest the specific name. A 



peculiar form was found by Mrs Britton near Whiteface inn. Its stems 



are long and slender, its flagellae few and its leaves secund. 



Dicranum fulvum Hook. 

 D. interruption Brid. 

 Rocks and boulders. Common. August and September. 



Dicranum longifolium Hedw. 

 Rocks and trunks of trees. Mt Jo, Avalanche trail and outlet of Lake 

 Placid. Less common in fruit, but conspicuous by its glossy leaves when 

 dry. Mrs Britton. Marcy trail and Indian pass. 



Dicranum Sauteri B. d;' S. 



Dead branches of spruce and balsam fir. Marcy trail and Mt 

 Mclntyre, also near Lake Placid. Closely related to the preceding 

 species from which it differs in its more tapering leaves which are less 

 serrulate and have more conspicuous auricles at the base. Not before 

 recorded in this state. It forms dense round cushions of a yellowish 

 green color. Mrs Britton. 



Dicranum fuscescens Turn. 

 Decaying wood and rocks. Common. 



Dicranum congestum Biid. 



Rocks. Cobble hill and Indian pass. It forms more dense cushions 

 than the preceding species. Mrs Britton. In the J/(7;/«dr/ this is united 

 with D. fuscescens Turn. 



