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peristome small, outer teeth short, densely trabeculate, inner ones slender, 

 short, sulcate, split to the short shallow sulcus, short cuspidate, cilia very 

 short, single, rudimentary. Flora 70: 219. 1887.— Alaska. 



29 1. Bryum Edwardsianum O. & M. Kindb.— Nearly allied to B. War- 

 neum, agreeing in peculiar peristome and very large spores (about .05 

 mm. ), but differing principally in leaves longer acuminate, entire, revolute 

 at borders; costa long excurrent: capsule narrower and lid lower: flagelli- 

 form branches absent: monoicous. Mac. Cat. 120. — On damp sandy soil: 

 Prince Edward Island. 



292. Bryum Knowltoni Barnes. — Plants densely cespitose, inter- 

 woven with red and brown rhizoids: stems copiously branched by innova- 

 tions, reddish: leaves closely imbricated in bud like tufts at top of innova- 

 tions, not twisted when dry, youngest bright green, older dirty yellow, 

 carinate, concave, ovate to obovate-lanceolate, lower shorter, upper nar- 

 rower, all abruptly and shortly acuminate; costa shortly excurrent, or dis- 

 solving in or ceasing below apex; margin entire, or rarely slightly denticu- 

 late here and there, slightly revolute or plane, border usually indistinct; 

 cells rectangular and hyaline below, rhomboidal and densely chlorophyl- 

 lose above: polygamous: capsule red brown or paler, rugose, pendent, ob- 

 long-pyriform; operculum small, strongly convex, apiculate, long persist- 

 ent; annulus triple, revoluble; teeth linear lanceolate, strongly barred 

 within, smooth above; segments of endostome free, strongly nodose, split 

 between along keel, cilia two, rudimentary. Bot. Gaz. 14. 4A. 1889. — 

 Crevices in rocks: Funk Island, Newfoundland. 



293. Bryum fallax Milde. — Stems 5-10 mm., branching: tufts yellow- 

 ish : leaves erect spreading, oval, decurrent, concave carinate, very shortly 

 mucronate by excurrent costa, entire, marginate, revolute at border, upper 

 cells hexagonal : dioicous : capsule pendent, symmetric or arcuate, 

 oblong pyriform, contracted at mouth ; collum as long as sporangium ; 

 lid conic, apiculate ; annulus large ; teeth yellow, segments of endostome 

 spUt along keel, cilia rudimentary. Husnot, Muse. Gall. 238. — St. Mat- 

 thew Island, Behring Sea. 



294. Bryum oeueam Blytt. — Dioicous : tufts thick, olive color and 

 reddish green, when old almost copper colored, reddish radiculose within : 

 leaves spreading, rigid, when dry falcate incurved and somewhat twisted, 

 narrowed at base and decurrent ; lower leaves small and distant, ovate 

 or obovate, sharp pointed, upper leaves oblong lanceolate or broad lanceo- 

 late, long pointed, red marginate ; margin revolute, entire ; costa thick, 

 red, generally excurrent ; cells thick-walled, pitted, above rhombic- 

 hexagonal, the basal rectangular : perichsetial leaves lanceolate, much 

 smaller, rigid : capsule pendent or nodding, club pyriform, some- 

 what curved, reddish brown ; neck one-half sporangium, when dry fur- 

 rowed ; lid small, yellow, convex ; annulus compound (2) ; teeth narrow, 



