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point or obtuse, not cucuUate and not distinctly denticulate; 

 alar cells small not well-defined on a short-triangular space. 

 Capsule subcylindric; teeth red below, pale above; annulus 

 broad revoluble; lid acute or apiculate; pedicel about 2 — 3 

 centim. long. Branches crowded faintly compressed. Tufts 

 dense green or brown-yellow. — Rocks and logs in woods. 

 Amer, Can. r.: Macoun. 



* E.transsilvanicus Demeter in revue bryol. 1885. — E. cla- 

 dorhizans *minutipes Kindb. in sched. 



Peristome paler. Pedicel of capsule less than 1 centim. long. 

 — Logs r. Eur. near Moscou: Zickendrath. Amer. Can.: Ma- 

 coun Canad. m. 263. 



5.E.Schleicheri Br. eur. — Cylindrothecium Br. eur ; Entodon 

 Brotherus enum. muscor. Caucas. 



Differs from E. cladorhizans: Leaves often cucuUate at apex; 

 alar cells on a narrow-triangular space. Capsule with narrow 

 persistent annulus; lid conic obtuse or acute. Branches less 

 crowded and more compressed. Tufts somewhat loose sparingly 

 radiculose us. green. — Rocks and ston}- earth. Eur. south, 

 distr. Italy, Switzerl.! France: Schimper. 



6.E.C0mpressus Hedwig. — Leskea H.; Entodon C. Mueller; 

 Cj'lindrothecium SuUiv. icon. muse. 



Differs from E. cladorhizans: Capsule oblong-cylindric; teeth 

 red; lid rostrate; pedicel often short. Branches more compres- 

 sed gen. distant. Tufts sparingly radiculose green or light 

 brown. — Logs r. Eur. »Russia: Pallas»: Lindberg. Amer. Can.: 

 Macoun. U. S.: Sullivant, com. C. Mueller; Austin, com. Macoun. 

 T.E.Drummondii Bruch et Schimper. — Cylindrothecium Br. 

 et Sch.; Entodon Kindb. 



Leaves narrowly ovate-oblong acute or short-acuminate, den- 

 ticulate near apex, less crowded; alar cells large on a short- 

 triangular space, inner basal sometimes similar Perichetial 

 leaves serrulate at acumen. Capsule oblong cylindric, substru- 

 mose at base; annulus indistinct; lid rostrate; pedicel long. 

 Branches complanate. Tufts greea sparingly radiculose. — Sto- 

 nes and logs r. Amer. U. S.: Langlois, com. Cardot. 



B. Leaves long-acuminate crowded; costa gen. indistinct. 



a. Leaves nearly entire. Endostomial segments wanting. 

 S.E.brevisetus Hooker et Wilson. — Neckera H. W.; Entodon 

 Kindb.; Cylindrothecium Br. et Sch.; Sull. ic. m. 



Leaves from ovate-oblong base abruptly narrowed to a su- 

 bulate filiform-pointed acumen; alar cells large on a narrow- 



