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NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT ON THE STATE CABINET. 



B. acuminatum, Hbppe & Hbrnsch. 



Fissures of rocks. Adirondack mountains, Lesqx. Rock City, G. 

 AV. Clinton. Very rare. September. 



Very similar to the following species in appearance, leaves and 

 capsules; but differs in having the flowers gemmaceous and ter- 

 minal, and, the inner peristome without cilia. 



B. elonoatum, Dicks. 



Humected black soil in crevices of rocks. High summits of the Adi- 

 rondack mountains; Whiteface mountain, etc., Lesqx. High Peak, 

 Catskill mountains. Rare. July. 



B. nutans, Schreb. 



Low grounds. Crevices of rocks in mountains. Common. June. 

 Var. bicolor, Bryol. Europ. 



Marshy places on mountains. Adirondack mountains, Lesqx. 



B. crudum, Schreb. 



Deep shaded crevices of rocks on mountains. Black mountain; 

 Catskill and Adirondack mountains, Lesqx. Fort Edward, E. C. 

 Howe. June. 



B. annotinum, Hedw. 



Moist banks by roadsides. Sand Lake. August. 



B. wahlenbergii, Schwaegr. 



Springy places and wet grayd'y banks. Base of Helderberg moun- 

 tains, fertile specimens. Rare in fruit. June. 



B. ptriforme, Hedw. 



Sandy soil, burnt ground, etc. Comrq,on. June. 



B. intermedium, Brid. 



Thin soil covering rocks. Not rare. June. 



B. bimum, Schreb. 



Swamps and wet ground about roots of trees. Common. June. 



B. pseudo-triquetrum, Schwaegr. 



Wet rocks, especially on hills and mountains. Catskill mountains. 

 . Poestenkill. Not common. June, July. 



B. roseum, Schreb. 



On the ground and about the roots of trees in woods. Rare in fruit. 



October. 



B. capillare, Hedw. 



Adirondack mountains, August, Lesqx. Buffalo, G. W. Clinton. 

 Fort Edward, E. C. Howe. 



B. cyclophyllum, BryoJ. Europ. 



Wet places. Caledonia creek at Green's, where it was found in 

 1865 by G. W. Clinton, the first to discover it in this country. 



Dioecious: loosely caespitose; stem branching by innovations 

 from the top or emitting slender branches from the base; leaves 

 bright green above, brown below, distant, half clasping the stem, 

 spreading, ovate-suborbicular, obtuse, entire, concave) costate to 

 near the apex; capsule ovate-pyriform, pendulous; operculum mam- 

 millate; annulus compound. 



