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gular, alar not hyaline; hairpoint rough often short. Capsule 

 oblong nearly smooth. Stem about 2 c. m. high. Habit of 

 0. trichophylla. — Rocks r. Eur. Switzerl.l Belgium: Gravet.. 

 Italy: Venturi. Amer. Can. Rocky mts and Vane, isl.: Macoun. 

 * G.sardoa Notaris; C. Mueller syn. 



» Leaves curved at apex, revolute to above middle; lower 

 cells short. Capsule globose. Plants small. — Eur. r. Italy: 

 Notaris*: C. M. 



2. Crispulse. 

 23.G.iiiciirTa Schwsegrichen. — Dicranum contortum Wahlen- 

 berg; Grimmia Schimper. 



Leaves sublinear-subulate with thickened borders, gen. crisped; 

 cells green or pale yellow: the middle oval-quadrate, the upper 

 small dusky; basal cells large, the alar rectangular; hairpoint 

 short or none. Capsule oval-oblong; annulus broad; pedicel 

 deflexed. Tufts soft us., tomentose, green or blackish, often 

 somewhat high. In open places the leaves not are distinctly 

 crisped. — • Rocks princ. in crevices in alp. region r. Eur. 

 Norway, Switzerl.l Sweden: E. Adlerz; J. Persson (fruit.). Ger- 

 many: Schimper. Amer. Can. Brit. Col.: Macoun. U. S. Oregon: 

 Roell. 

 24.G.liainulosa Lesquereux. 



Differs from the last: Leaves falcate muticous not thickened 

 at borders; cells brown, the lower less elongate; costa brown, 

 stouter and subexcurrent. Tufts loose blackish. »Capsule 

 larger; annulus none»: Lesq. et Jam. — Higher alp. region r. 

 Amer. U. S. Calif.: Bolsender, com. C. Mueller. 

 2.5.Cr.atrata Mielichhofer. 



Leaves sublinear subobtuse with thickened borders, crisped 

 when dry, patent-erect when moist; cells pale green in younger 

 state: the middle short-rectangular, the upper round-quadrate 

 sinuous, the alar subquadrate; costa very stout; hairpoint very 

 short nearly smooth us. wanting. Capsule oblong-cylindric or 

 oval; annulus broad; pedicel straight. Tufts very tomentose, 

 blackish when dry, brown-green when moist, often high. — 

 Alp. region princ. on copper-rusty rocks r. Eur. Norway, SpainI 

 Austria: Schimper. , 



3. Trichophylloidese. 



A. Leaves narrow, not recurved below, nearly flat at borders. 

 Tufts dense and cohering, about 1—2 centim. high. Capsule 

 small not striate. 



