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14. Brachythecium flagellare (Hedwig) New Combination. 



(Hypnuiu flagellare Hedwig; Hypmim plumosum Swartz; 

 B. plumosum Bryologia Kuropsea). 



(Plate LII) 

 Robust in loose, wide, green mats, brownish below : stems 

 prostrate, up to 5 or 6 or more cm. long, with Father densely- 

 pinnate branches ; the branches stout, ascending to erect, some- 

 what tumid with the closely imbricate, concave leaves; leaves 

 crowded, erect-spreading when moist, imbricated when dry, 

 often quite strongly falcate-secund, the branch-leaves lanceo- 

 late to broadly lance-ovate, abruptly slenderly acuminate, 

 about 1.3-2.0x0.4—0.9 mm.^ decurrent, serrate above to nearly 

 entire, the base very concave somewhat excavate at the alse, 

 narrowed, sometimes striate when dry, margin plane or slight- 

 ly recurved at the base; costa reaching to the middle or a 

 little farther; median leaf-cells narrow to linear, about 8-15:1, 

 the apical shorter, the basal shorter, the median basal en- 

 larged, rounded to oblong, incrassate, sometimes porose, the 

 alar somewhat smaller, oblong to sub-quadrate, in- 

 crassate and somewhat opaque ; stem-leaves similar, rather 

 scattered, usually smaller and narrower, about 1.5x0.6-0.7 

 mm., narrowly triangular-ovate ; perichsetial bracts more or less 

 erect, partly sheathing: seta papillose in the upper half, cas- 

 taneous, stout, 1.5-2.0 cm. long, sinistrorse below, sometimes 

 dextrorse above; capsule about 1.5-2.5x1 mm., turgidly oval- 

 oblong, blackish when old, dorsally gibbous, horizontal to sub- 

 erect, somewhat unsymmetric ; lid conic-acute about 0.6-0.8 

 mm. long ; annulus simple, persistent ; peristome-teeth cas- 

 taneous, confluent at base, strongly trabeculate and lamellate, 

 prominently margined by the projecting lamellae, dorsally 

 cross-striolate below, hyaline and papillose at apex; segments 

 narrow, carinately split but usually not widely gaping, yellow- 

 ish, nearly as long as teeth, the basal membrane about one- 

 third as high ; cilia 2, nodose, hyaline, sometimes appendicu- 

 late below, about as long as the segments ; spores smooth, 

 medium-walled, brownish, about .013-017 mm., mature in 

 autumn. 



On rocks in streams, in non-calcareous habitats ; Europe, 

 Asia, Hawaiian Islands, and from Newfoundland to British 

 Columbia and south in the mountains to Alabama. Very com- 

 mon in our region. 



Allegheny : Fourteen pockets, various localities, vari- 

 ous data; Wildwood Road Hollow, No- 

 vember 19, 1908. O. E. J. and G. K. J. 

 (Figured). 

 Bedford : Along Wills Creek, near Hyndman, Octo- 



ber 9, 1904. O. E. J. 



