02 N N ETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OX THE -TATE CABINET. 



B. acuminatum, Hoppe & Hornsch. 



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

 W. Clinton. Very rare?. September. 



Very similar to Ihe following species in appearance, leaves and 

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

 minal, and, the inner peristome without cilia. 



B. ELONGATUM, Dicks. 



Hamected black soil in crevices of rocks. High summits of the -V li- 

 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. cbudum, Schreb. 



Peep shaded crevices of rocks on mountains. Black mountain; 

 ■ -kill and Adirondack mountains, Lesqx. Fort Edward, E. C. 

 Howe. June. 



B. Annotinum, Hedw. 



3Iuist banks by roadsides. Sand Lake. August. 



B. wahlenbergii, Schwaegr. 



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

 tains, fertile specimens. Rare in fruit. • June. 



B. PYRIFORME. B 



Sandy soil, burnt ground, etc. Common. 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. boseum, Schreb. 



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



October. 

 B. CAriLLARE, Hedw. 



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



Fort Edward, E. C. Howe. 

 B. cyclophylloi, Bryol. Europ. 



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



1S65 by G. W. Clinton, the first to discover it in this country. 

 Dioecious: lo-sely 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-pyi iform, pendulous; operculum mam- 



millate; annulus compound. 



