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inner basal shorter and dilated, alar hyaline or red. Capsule 

 large arcuate; Ud acute; pedicel very long. Tufts dirty green 

 or yellowish sometimes glossj'. — Wet places. Eur. common. 

 Sweden (often fruiting), Germany, Switzerl.l Amer. not common. 

 Can.; Macoun; Moeer. 



IV. Scorpidium Schimper. 

 T.C.scorpioides L. — Hypnum L. 



Leaves suboval-oblong not decurrent, us. very large; cells 

 gen. linear, the lowest basal shorter and wider. Stem-leaves 

 obtuse sometimes apiculate; branch-leaves obtuse or acute. Cap- 

 sule large arcuate; lid apiculate; pedicel very long. Tufts us. 

 brownish with golden glossy branch-tops. R. fruiting. — Peat- 

 bogs princ. in northern distr. Eur. Sweden, Norway (common)! 

 Avier. Can.: Macoun. 



V. Pseudo-Limnobion Kindb. 

 1. Badiiformia. 

 S.C.badium C. J. Hartman. • — Hypnum Hai-tman. 



Stem-leaves suboval short-apiculate; cells gen. linear orange- 

 colored, the alar nearly indistinct; costa of some leaves short 

 double. Branch-leaves ovate-oblong short-acuminate acute; costa 

 subpercurrent. Capsule not large, more or less curved; lid 

 obtuse; pedicel somewhat long. Stems sparingly divided, r. 

 tufted; branches us. long and often loosed from stem, us. brown- 

 red with golden glossy tops, r. green. Often growing together 

 with C. sarmentosum or Hypnum revolvens. — Swamps in northern 

 alps r. Eur. Norway fruiting! Sweden: R. Hartman. Finl.: Bro- 

 therus. Amer. Greenl.: Berggren. 

 9.C.polare Lindberg. — Hypnum Lindberg. 



Leaves ovate-oblong, either obtusate (obtuse or acute) or 

 short- acuminate and falcate, greenish or sometimes golden glossy; 

 alar cells large hyaline, the others sublinear or the uppermost 

 oblong-lanceolate; costa subpercurrent. Capsule shghtly curved 

 not large; pedicel short. Stems densely tufted but looselj' co- 

 hering; branches sometimes subjulaceous. — Sand and stones 

 in alp. rivulets r. Eur. Norway! Sweden fruiting: E. Nyman. 

 Spetsbergen: Berggren. France: Husnot. Amer. »Greenl.»: Berg- 

 gren. 



2. Ochraceiformia. 



A. Leaves entire; costa gen. .«hort us. double. Stem not 

 rigid; branches often long. 

 lO.C.Ochraceum Turner et Wilson. — Hypnum T. et W. 



Stem-leaves broad-ovate obtuse not falcate; uppermost cells 



