MOSSES. 307 
Family HYPNACEAE. 
THUIDIUM Bruch & Schimp. 
Thuidium delicatulum (L.) Mitt. 
Shaded banks on the ground, logs, trees, ete. Common throughout. 
Louisianian area to Boreal region. Labrador, British North America; West Indies, 
Mexico, South America. 
Thuidium microphyllum (Sw.) Best. 
Damp places, on brick walls and rotten wood, and onthe ground. Mobile County. 
Lee County, Auburn (Baker d° Earle). 
Louisianian to Alleghenian area, Throughout the Eastern United States; most 
frequent southward. West Indies, Mexico. 
BRACHYTHECIUM Schimp. 
Brachythecium oxycladon (Brid.) Jaeg. & Sauerb. 
Mountainous woods, on the ground. Winston County. 
Carolinian and Alleghenian areas. North to New England, Canada, Newfoundland. 
Brachythecium acuminatum (Hedw.) Rau & Hervey. 
Mountainous woods, on decayed trunks. Winston County. Lee County, Auburn 
(Baker §* Earle). 
Louisianian to ANeghenian area. Florida to New England; Ontario. 
Brachythecium campestre Bruch. 
Lee County, Auburn (Baker § Earle). A strange find entirely out of range; 
known only from the White Mountains, New England, and the Western Rocky 
Mountains, Idaho, and from British Columbia. 
Brachythecium plumosum (Sw.) Bruch & Schimp. 
Damp rocks. Winston County. 
Carolinian and Alleghenian areas. North to New England, Ontario, Quebec. 
EHURHYNCHIUM Bruch & Schimp. 
Burhynchium hians (Hedw.) Jaeg. & Sauerb. 
Damp shady borders of woods. Winston County. Lee County, Auburn (Baker J: 
Earle). * 
Carolinian and Alleghenian areas. Throughout the Eastern States to Ontario, 
Nova Scotia, and British Columbia. 
Eurynchium boscii (Schwaegr.) Jaeg. & Sauerb. 
Grassy damp banks. Mobile County. Lee County, Auburn (Baker §- Earle). 
Louisianian to Alleghenian area. Louisiana to Florida, throughout the Eastern 
States to Ontario. 
RAPHIDOSTEGIUM Lesq. & James. 
Raphidostegium microcarpum (K. Muell.) Lesq. & James. Hypnum microcarpum 
K. Muell. Leskea adnata Michx. 
On trees. Over the State. MobileCounty. Lee County, Auburn (Baker J Earle). 
Abundant; February, March. ; 
Louisianian and Carolinian areas. Louisiana to Florida, north to New Jersey 
and Ohio. 
Raphidostegium recurvans (Schwaegr.) Lesq. & James. 
Roots of trees. Mountain region. Winston County. Not rare. 2 
Carolinian to Alleghenian area. Along the mountains to Pennsylvania, New 
Jersey, and Canada; Newfoundland west to British Columbia. 
Raphidostegium carolinianum K. Muell. 
In swamps, on rotten wood and roots of trees. Mobile County. 
Louisianian and Carolinian areas. Louisiana and Florida to New Jersey. 
RHYNCHOSTEGIUM Schimp. 
Rhynchostegium serrulatum (Hedw.) Lesq. & James. 
Woodlands, shaded banks, on the ground and on roots of trees and decayed 
trunks. Mobile County. Lee County, Auburn. Over the State: one of the com- 
morest of mosses. . 
Louisianian to Alleghenian area. From the Gulf coast to Canada. 
