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Capsule with evident coUum . . . B. ^laciale, 481. 

 Cells of basal angles distinct, small or dilated, quadrate 

 or oblong rectangular. 

 Leaves decurrent. 

 Broad ovate, faintly striate, dioicous . B. platycladnm, 475. 

 Triangular ovate, deeply plicate, monoicous. 

 Seta long (1.5 cm.), faintly rough, teeth ser- 

 rulate B. lencog'laucum, 484. 



Seta long (2 cm.), very rough, teeth not ser- 

 rulate . . . . B. Coliimbico-rutabulum,' 481. 

 Seta short (5-8 mm.), faintly rough . B. mirabundnm, 489. 

 Leaves not decurrent. 



Capsule short or roundish oval. 

 Horizontal, pedicel arcuate above . . B. Bolanderi, 341. 

 Oblique, pedicel straight . . . B. gemmascens, 48S. 



Capsule oblong cylindric. 

 Inner perichaetial leaves very abruptly 



pointed B. trachypodium, 478. 



Inner perichEetial leaves gradually acuminate B. asperrimum,^ 343. 



The following species are not included in this key, since the descriptions 

 are taken from sterile or immature specimens or are otherwise so incom- 

 plete as not to offer sufficient characters for their proper location: H. 

 Coloradense Aust., Man. 412; B. Fitzgeraldi C. MiilL, 454; B. RcelUi, 

 R. & C, 457; B. harpldioides C. M. & K., 460; B. pseudoalbicans 

 Kindb., 464; B. spurio-acuminatum C. M. & K., 465; B. pseudo-colli- 

 num Kindb., 468; B. latifoUum (Lindb.) R. & C, 472; B. pseudo- 

 Starkei R. & C, 473; B. spurio-rutabulum C. M. & K., 476; B. Vil- 

 lardi R. & C, 490; B. cirrhosum Sch., 491. , 



SCLEROPODIUM, p. 346. 



Cilia solitary, rudimentary ..... S. Krausei, 493. 

 Cilia 2-3, as long as the segments. 

 Seta rough throughout. 

 Capsule erect or oblique, stem leaves gradually acu- 

 minate S. csBspitosum," 346. 



Capsule horizontal, leaves abruptly short acuminate 



with point recurved S. illecebrum, 347. 



Seta rough and reddish above, smooth and yellow 



below . S. Californicum, 346. 



1 From description I cannot distinguish B. lamprochryseum. See Appendix, no. 488. 

 ''Hypnum vallium S. & L. is identical see. Sail. Ic. Muse. Suppl. 100. 

 ^ See Appendix, no. 492. 



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