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129.B.niami]latam Lindberg. 



Upper leaves glomerate not decurrent, broadly limbate, re- 

 flexed ovate-lanceolate entire green; costa short-exeurrent. Cap- 

 sule thick subovate brown-yellow; lid deplauate mamillate; pe- 

 dicel long. Spores less large than in B. icarneum. — On shores 

 of Baltic sea r. Eur. Sweden: Zetterstedt. 

 130.B.serotinuni Lindberg. 



Differs from the last in leaves narrow- limbate, cells narrower; 

 capsule longer necked, pedicel less long; stems more distinct, 

 less loosely tufted. — Wet sand r. Eur. Sweden: H. W. Aruell. 



B. Tufts dense. Leaves gen. broadly limbate. 



a. Fruiting stem distinct with somewhat long loosely foliate 

 shoots. Capsule gen. narrow. 



131.B.BrOWnii Bryol. eur. 



Leaves green not crowded, subdecurrent and narrowed at 

 the orange-colored base, reflexed below, ovate- oblong or narro- 

 wer; costa yellowish often long-excurrent. Stem-leaves broadly 

 limbate; shoot-leaves less distinctly limbate with short-excurrent 

 costa. Capsule pale finally brown yellow; cilia not appendicu- 

 late; lid apiculate; pedicel often long. Stem and shoots radicu- 

 lose in lower half. Us. monoecious. — Wet rocks and swamps 

 in alp. northern regions r. Eur. Norway! Amer. Greenl : Berg- 

 gren. 

 132.B.erubescens Kindb. cat. Canad. m. 



Stem-leaves red-brown crowded not decurrent, broadly reddish 

 or brownish limbate, scarcely reflexed, ovate-oblong; costa red- 

 brown somewhat long-excurrent. Shoot-leaves narrower limbate, 

 sometimes short-decurrent. Capsule finally pale brown, distinctly 

 strangulate; cilia appendiculate; lid mamillate; pedicel not long. 

 Spores large. Dioecious. — Rocks r. Amer. Can. Rocky mts: 

 Macoun. 



b. Fruiting stem verj' short with short shoots. Us. synoe- 

 cious. 



133.B.Lindgrenii Schimper. — »B. purpurascens»: Lindgren 

 musci suec. exsicc. 



Leaves crowded not decurrent, often reflexed, ovate-oblong 

 short-acuminate, often denticulate above; co.■^ta subpercurrent. 

 Capsule suboblong not large, pale brown; teeth brown-yellow; 

 cilia not appendiculate; lid deplanate mamillate; pedicel some- 

 what long. Tufts small yellowish green or pale red. — On 

 the shore of a lake (Weuern) r. Eur. Sweden near Lidkoeping: 

 S. J. IJndgren. 



