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uppermost (1.5 mm.) and perichsetial leaves (2 mm.) from a sheathing base 

 (J^ of leaf) gradually or suddenly narrowed into an acute or obtuse recurved 

 subula; lamina with flat margins, very narrow in subula, crenulate by 

 papillse; cells of base elongate-rectangular, thick walled, the upper small 

 quadrate (6-8/i): seta erect, 6-13 mm. long: capsule erect, cylindric-oval; 

 lid J^ the sporangium, obtuse; annulus of 3-4 rows of large cells, revolu- 

 ble; peristome tube .Oi mm. high, teeth filiform, not nodose. Limpr. 

 Laubm. 1: 596. — On earth: Eevelstoke, B. C. 



125. Barbula macrorhyncha Kindb. — Habit of B. brevirostris: leaves 

 round-ovate, obtuse, involute all around even at the apex; costa not ex- 

 current: capsule oblong-ovoid; annulus revoluble; teeth long, twisted at 

 least twice, beak of lid more than % length of capsule; seta pale red or 

 yellowish: dioicous: calyptra unknown. Different from B. rigida in very 

 much shorter leaves and longer lid. Mac. Oat. 50. — On earth: Ontario. 



126. Barbula Henrici Rau. (§ Chloronot^).— Dioicous (?): plants 

 shortj branched, closely cespitose, canescent from white excurrent costse: 

 leaves spreading when moist, imbricated when dry, concave, short spatu- 

 late; costa keeled, filamentose near apex of leaf, excurrent portion as long 

 as leaf, hyaline, serrate; cells quadrate and chlorophyllose above, hyaline 

 and elongated toward base: fruit unknown. — On rocks: Saline Co., Kansas. 



127. Barbnla Mannise C. Mtill.— Slender, small, bright green: stems 

 short, simple: leaves minute, few; base erect, slender, loosely reticulate, con- 

 cave; lamina for the plant elongate, narrow, oblong; apex roundish obtuse; 

 margin obscure, quite entire, revolute; cells minute, hexagonal, costa rather 

 thick, with a few narrow longitudinal lamellae and deciduous gem- 

 maa above: inner perichsetial leaves very narrow, linear-oblong: seta 

 long, red, flexuous; capsule small, erect, cylindraceous, brown; lid with 

 slender oblique beak; annulus persistent, rather large; peristome mem- 

 brane pale, short, teeth slender, red. Flora 70: 222. 1887.— On calcareous 

 soil: Colorado. 



128. Barbula Egelingi Schlieph.— Dioicous: very small, slender, sim- 

 ple: leaves aggregated into a minute tuft, few, small, imbricate; lamina 

 oblong lanceolate, very entire, from a more pellucid loosely reticulate 

 broader base deeply carinate-concave; margin above convex, scarcely rev- 

 olute, rather broad, of larger yellow cells; costa slender, excurrent; cells 

 minute, roundish hexagonal, thick, obscure: seta very slender, long, flexu- 

 ous, red; capsule erect, minute, very narrowly cylindric; lid very short 

 conic, oblique, spirally twisted; annulus narrow, simple, persistent; peri- 

 stome with a short membrane. Flora 70: 222. 1887.— Memphis, Tenn. 



129. Barbula carnifolia 0. M. & Kindb.— Stem very short, 2-3 mm. 

 high: leaves Ungulate, not margined, blunt; margins recurved below and 

 above the middle at one side; cells finally subpellucid, upper and median 

 subquadrate, lower basal near costa large rectangular and hyaline, margi- 



