50 NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT ON THE STATE CABINET. 



RACOMITRIUM, Brid. 



R. ACICTJLARE, Brid. 



Rocks along' mountain streams. Catskill mountains. Sand Lake. 



June. 

 R. sudeticum, Funic. 



Moist rocks along streams. Adirondack mountains; Aug., Lesqx. 



Catskill mountains. James in Pr. Am. Phil. Soc. 

 R. MICEOCARPUM, Brid. 



Rocks, either moist or dry. On mountains. Common. May- June. 

 R. fasciculare, Brid. 



Rocks near waterfalls. Adirondack mountains; Ausable river, etc. 



Lesqx. Catskill mountains. James in Pr. Am. Phil. Soc. 



HEDWIGIA, Ehrh. 



H. CILIATA, JDicl'S. 



Granite rocks and stone walls. Very rarely on decayed logs. Every- 

 where common. May. 

 SCHISTOSTEGA, Mohr. 

 S. osmundacea, Web. & Mohr. 



On dirt adhering to roots of overblown trees in deep woods, a short 

 distance south of Cranberry marsh, Sand Lake. This is at present 

 its only known locality in this country. August. 



Very delicate, slender, simple or rarely bifurcate, 3'' — 6" long, 

 growing from a shining, yellowish-green and persistent prothallium, 

 rooting only at the base, two-shaped; sterile plants frondlike, with 

 the leaves two-ranked, rhomboidal, ecostate, vertically inserted, 

 coufluent at the base; fertile plants frond iform below or with the 

 stein nearly naked, bearing flowers and minute horizontal leaves of 

 various forms at the top* flowers gemmiform; vaginula ovate-glo- 

 bose; capsule on a long slender pedicel, minute, nearly globose, 

 without a peristome,; operculum convex; calyptra minute, mitriform 

 or dimidiate-conical, covering the operculum only; spores minute. 

 A very rare little moss of peculiar habit and loose cellular structure, 

 with a beautiful glaucous green color when fresh. First found in 

 this country in 1865. 



TETRAPLODON, Bryol. Europ. 



T. anqustatus, Bri/ol. Europ. 



On the excrement of cows in a swamp near Lake Placid, Adiron- 

 dack mountains; August, Lesqx. 



T. mnioides, L.fil. 



Excrement of ssome animal near the top of Mount Marcy; August, 

 Lesqx. 



APHAXORHEGMA, Sulliv. 

 A. serrata, Stdliv. 



Moist ground in fields. Common. November. 



