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two-fifths as high as teeth, the ciHa usually two, slender, no- 

 dose to shortly appendiculate, nearly as long as segments; 

 spores papillose, yellowish, medium-walled, about .011-015 

 mm. in diameter, mature in late fall or early winter. 



On the ground in moist, shady places in woods, etc , in 

 Europe, Asia, and in North America from Nova Scotia to 

 British Columbia south to the Gulf States. Apparently not 

 common in our region. 



Fayette : Ohio Pyle, September 1-3, 1906. O. E. J. 



and G. K. J. 

 McKean : On shaded banks of rivulet, Bennett 



Brook, April 9, 1893, Marilla Brook, Sep- 

 tember 29, 1894 (Figured), and on ground 

 over leaf-mold, April 19, 1897. All near 

 Bradfrod. D. A. B. 



6. EURYNCHIUM Bryologia Europaea. 



Dioicous and pseudoautoicous : slender to robust, laxly or 

 densely cespitose, green to yellowish, drying stiff and more or 

 less lustrous: stem creeping to ascending, often more or less 

 stolon-like, here and there fasciculate, often bearing fiagellas, 

 pinnate to fasciculate or even dendroid ; branches more or less 

 densely-leaved ; leaves often dimorphic, mostly plicate ; stem- 

 leaves spreading to squarrose, more or less concave, ovate- 

 cordate to triangular-cordate from a narrowed and more or less 

 decurrent base, margins plane, serrate, the apex short and 

 broad to long and narrow ; costa simple, more or elss elongate, 

 often ending as a dorsal spine ; median leaf-cells smooth, 

 prosenchymatous, narrow, at base shorter and usually incras- 

 sate and porose, the alar differentiated ; inner perichaetial leaves 

 with squarrose-refiexed, subulate tips : seta mostly smooth ; 

 capsule sernuous, sometimes horizontal, ovate to sub-cylindric, 

 more or less dorsally gibbous ; peristome as in Brachythecium; 

 lid long and finely rostrate; calyptra glabrous. 



A genus of about 16 species, on rocks, earth, or bark, al- 

 most entirely in temperate regions; about 6 species in North 

 America; probably only one species in our region. 



1. Eurynchium pulchellum (Hedwig) New Combination. 



(Hypnum pulchellum Hedwig ; H. strigosum Hoffmann ; Burhyn- 

 chiuin strigosum Bryologia Europaea). 



So far as known this species is represented in our region 

 only by the following variety, which differs from the typical 

 species in the larger leaves and sporogonia and the more robust 

 habit. 



