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92.'B.elata Durieu et Montagne. 



Leaves entire nearly graduallj' subulate not large, faintly 

 crisped; basal cells pellucid gen. rectangular. Periohetial leaves 

 with narrower often sublinear channelled acumen; costa sub- 

 excurrent or in the shorter uppermost leaves wanting. Capsule 

 reddish subcylindric; teeth contorted. Tufts brown-green often 

 high. — Amer. r. Pacif. distr. U. S.: Roell; Henderson, com. 

 Cardot. 



bb. Leaf -base subovate or ovate-oblong; costa often ex- 

 current. 

 9B.B.Ymealis Bridel. 



Leaves with oblong base and not longer in upper part su- 

 bulate-filiform acumen, reflexed below middle, nearly straight 

 when moist; inner basal cells short-rectangular; costa nearly 

 filling the upper part of acumen, in the more abruptly atte- 

 nuate perichetial longer excurrent. Capsule short oblong-cyUn- 

 dric; teeth short pale once contorted. Tufts lower than in B. 

 cylindrica, us. brown or brown-red. Not r. fruiting. — Rocks 

 and stonewalls. Eur. not r. in warmer distr. Switzerl.l France: 

 Husnot m. Gall. Italy: Venturi; Roell. Amer. r. Can.: Ma- 

 coun. 

 94.B.flexifolia Hampe. 



sDifEers from B. vinealis in leaves crisped when dry, falcate 

 when moistened, borders revolute; capsule narrower subcylin- 

 dric dark red or brown; teeth much twisted reddish then whi- 

 tish or variable in color. — On the ground r. Amer. U. S. 

 Calif. »; Lesq. et Jam. 

 95.B.circinnatula C. M. et Kindb. 1. c. 



Leaves from ovate or ovate-oblong base somewhat abruptly 

 narrowed to the subulate much longer acumen, reflexed below, 

 curved when moist, circinnate when dry; basal cells gen. short 

 dusky; costa well-distinct but not excurrent also in the nearly 

 similar perichetial leaves. Capsule subcylindric; teeth pale 

 much contorted; annulus simple by one row of large cells. 

 Tufts greenish somewhat high, or red-brown below. — Wet 

 earth and rocks r. Amer. Can. Pacif. distr.: Macoun. 

 96.B.8ubcylindrica Brotherus. 



Leaves from subovate base abruptly narrowed to the longer 

 and subobtuse acumen, falcate when moist; lower basal cells 

 rectangular hyaline. Tufts dark brown. Capsules unknown. 

 Otherwise as the last. — - Amer. v. U. S. Pacif. distr.: Roell, 

 com. Brotherus. 



