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17.P.Breidleri Kindb. (new name). — Ptj'chodium oligocladum 

 Limpricht 1895. 



»Leave8 from ovate base suddenly long-subulate gen. entire, 

 pale or bright green; cells gen. sublanceolate; costa vanishing 

 below acumen. — Rocks in higher alp. region r. — Eur. 

 Salzburg: Breidler»; Limpricht. 



45. Thuidium Bryol. eur. 



A. Leaves crisped when dry, not recurved, more or less 

 distant; cells gen. rotundate. Stem us. creeping; paraphyllia 

 ■wanting. Pedicel of capsule short, sometimes rough. 



I. Claopodium. Leaves denticulate; those of branches narrowly 

 acuminate; cells round- oval or suboblong. Dioecious. 

 IL Pseudo-Claopodium. Leaves us. entu-e, broadly short-acu- 

 minate or obtusate, very small; those of branches us. obtuse; 

 cells rotundate. Us. monoecious. 



B. Leaves not (exc. T. minutulum) crisped, gen. appressed 

 when dry, often recurved, us. crowded; cells sometimes elon- 

 gate. Stem often not creeping; paraphyllia us. numerous. Pe- 

 dicel smooth. 



a. Leaves small. Tufts intricate. Stem us. creeping; para- 

 phyUia short. Capsule small; pedicel us. not much long. 



III. Micro-Thuidium. Leaves us. faintly papillose; cells gen. 

 rotundate. Stem sometimes irregularly pinnate. Us. monoecious. 



b. Stem-leaves gen. large. Tufts loose not intricate. Stem 

 r. creeping; paraphyllia us. long. Capsule large; pedicel very 

 long. 



IV. Eu-Thuidlum. Leaves us. very papillose; inner basal cells 

 sublinear or oblong, the others gen. rotundate. Stem bi-or tri- 

 pinnate; paraphyllia long. Dioecious r. fruiting. 



V. Elodinm. Leaves often faintly papillose or mamillose, some- 

 times smooth; cells often elongate, the middle gen. suboblong. 

 Stem simply pinnate, not creepmg; paraph}'llia sometimes short. 

 Monoecious or dioecious. 



I. Claopodium SuUivant. 



A. Leaves of stem and branches with long hyaline hairpoint. 

 Stem often without rhizoids, pinnate or with pinnate 

 branches. 



l.T.crispifolium Hooker. — Hypnum Hook.; Thuidium Kindb.; 

 Hypnum ramulosum Hampe. 



Stem-leaves ovate-lanceolate or from short round-ovate base 

 abruptly subulate; branch-leaves narrower; cells round-oval. 



