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raen. Capsule small cylindric; segments often long; lid rostrate; 

 pedicel red. Branches long not compressed, often curved when 

 dry; branchlets often flagellate, their leaves narrow often subu- 

 late. Tufts intricate. R. fruiting. — Rocks and trees not un- 

 common. Eur, Sweden, France, Switzerl., Italyl Amer. Can,: 

 Macoun. U. S.: Purpus, com. Roell. 

 6.A.californicus Lesquereux. 



»Leaves broadly ovate acute, very papillose and fimbriate at 

 the auricled base, decurrent; borders recurved; upper cells ovate- 

 quadrate. Capsules unknown. — Amer. U. S.»; Lesq. et Jam. 

 b. Leaves subulate-acuminate entire. Tufts intricate. Branchlets 

 often flagelliform. 

 7. A.longifolius Schleicher; Pterogonium Schl.; Anomodon Bruch. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate gradually acuminate, long-decurrent, 

 not recurved; cells round-quadrate; costa subpercurrent. Capsule 

 cylindric; teeth twice longer than endostome; lid apiculate. 

 Tufts pale green. Very r. fruiting. — Rocks and trees below 

 alps gen. r. Eur. Sweden not r., Switzerl. 1 

 S.A.rOStratus Hedwig. — Leskea H.; Anomodon Schimper. 



Leaves from subovate base abruptly acuminate often with 

 hyaline hairpoint; borders recurved gen. to acumen; cells as in 

 the last; costa reaching to acumen or shorter. Capsule oval- 

 oblong; teeth about twice longer than endostome; lid rostrate 

 or rostellate. Tufts us. pale green above and rusty red below, 

 r. wholly dark green. — Rocks and trees. Eur. r. Switzerl.! 

 Amer. not r. Can.: Macoun; Waghorne. U. S.: Roell; SuUivant, 

 com. C. Mueller. 



II. Leskeella Limpricht, in part. 

 At Costa of leaves short, in the perichetial obsolete. 

 9.A.tectorum Al. Braun. — Pterogonium Braun; Anomodon 

 Kindb.; Pseudoleskea Schimper. 



Leaves with ovate base and gen. short (sometimes long fal- 

 cate) acumen, acute, recurved below; middle cells oval-oblong; 

 costa vanishing far l3elow acumen, sometimes forking. Capsule 

 cylindric; teeth yellow; segments long without basal membrane; 

 lid rostellate; pedicel short. Stem pinnate creeping, julaceous 

 when dr}'. Leaves sometimes smaller than in A. nervosus. 

 Very r. fruiting. — On roofs and rocks, r. on walls or trees, 

 gen. r. Eur. Norway! Germany: Roell. Amer. »Greenl.»: 

 Berggren. 

 lO.A.Subrigidulus Kindb. n. sp. 



Difiers from the last: Leaves more distinctly recurved to the 

 short acumen; middle cells round-oval; costa gen. reaching to 



