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n. Oreoweisia Schimper. 



A. Leaves long gradnally long-snbulate, crisped when dry. 

 9.C.Bruntoni Smith. — Dicranum Sm.; C^'nodontium Br. enr. 



Leaves recurved near base, distantly denticulate-sin uolate at 

 acumen; basal cells hyaline not much wider than the others. 

 Capsule suboblong pale brown; annulus persistent. Tufts yello- 

 wish green us. subpulvinate. Monoecious. — Rocks. Eur. not 

 r. Sweden, Switzerl.l Corsica: Levier. France: Schimper. 

 lO.C.robustuiu Venturi. — Dicranoweisia Vent, revue bryol. 

 1882; Cynodontium Kindb. 



sDoubly or triply larger than the last. Differs in leaves 

 smooth; capsule ovate; tufts 3 — 4 c. m. high or higher, fuscous 

 below, yellowish above. — Eur. Portugal*: Venturi. 



B. Leaves short broad: upper crisped, lower nearly spirally 

 twisted about stem (as in Anoectangium) when dry. 

 ll.C.serrulatum Funck. — Weisia Funck; Cynodontium Kindb. 



Leaves narrowly ovate-oblong or sublinear, short-acuminate 

 subacute, not or (at one side) faintly recurved, stronglj' mamil- 

 lose, in upper part densely mamillose-sevrulate; upper cells 

 small dusky, the basal pellucid rectangular; costa subpercurrent, 

 serrulate at back. Capsule small suboval rostellate; pedicel 

 short not much exserted above the tufts. Monoecious. — Rocks 

 in alp. region r. Eur. Austria: Breidler. Amer. »U. S. and 

 Alaska »: Lesq. et Jam. 



12.C.obtusatum Kindb. — Oreoweisia Kindb. rev. bryol. 

 1896; O. serrulata var. tenuior C. M. et Kindb. cat. Can. m. 



Leaves obtuse broader and shorter than in the last, subovate 

 not acuminate, strongly recurved below, very mamillose, densely 

 mamillose-serrulate above; basal cells mostly short, gen. not 

 pellucid; costa percurrent. Tufts verv tomentose to the short 

 green tops. Capsules and flowers unknown. Differs from the 

 resembling Dickodontium pellucidum *fagimontanum in smaller 

 and shorter not sheathing leaves, nearlv spirally twi&tod about 

 stem, not or (the uppermost) r. crisped. Resembles also Anoec- 

 langium. — Damp rocks r. Amer. Can : Macoun. 



III. Pseudo-Philonotis Kindb. 

 13.C.boreale Hagen and Limpricht. — Philonotis f on tana var. 

 borealis Hagen; Ph. borealis Limpricht; Cynodontium Kindb. 



Leaves small subovate short-acuminate acute; cells subqua- 

 drate (or the basal short-rectangular) larger than in other spe- 

 cies and more or less pellucid; costa percurrent serrulate at 

 back. Lower leaves smooth pellucid nearly entire, sometimes 



