58 NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT ON THE STATE CABINET. 



C. DENDROIDES, L. 



Habitat as in the preceding 1 . Cemetery woods, Sand Lake. Wet 

 bank, Rensselaerville, Miss R. Waterburt. Rare. Sept., Oct. 



Distinguished from the preceding by the shorter capsule, shorter 

 rostrum to the operculum, and less distinctly auricled base of the 

 leaves. 



HYPNUM, Dill. 



II. TAMARISCINUM, Hedw. 



Ground and decayed logs in swamps and wet woods. Common. 



October -March. 



H. DELICATULUM, G. Mull. 



Ground and rocks in dry hilly woods. Not rare. Aug., Sept. 



II. minutulum, Hedw. 



Base of trees and rotten wood in woods. Common. July- Oct. 



H. pygm^um, Bryol. Europ. 



Rocks. Foster's Flat, G. W. Clinton. Rare. August. 



H. gracile, Bryol. Europ. 



Ground and rotten logs in woods. Catskill mountains. Fort Ed- 

 ward, E. C. Howe. July. 



H. abietinum, L. 



Rocks. Goat Island, Lesqx. Whirlpool wood, Niagara Falls, G. 

 W. Clinton. Helderberg mountains. Sterile. 



H. blandowii, Web. & Mohr. 



Swamps and bogs. Caledonia, G. W. Clinton. Warren, Herki- 

 mer county, J. A. Paine, Jr. Rare. June. 



Stems erect or ascending, Z' — 4' long, simple or sparingly divided, 

 pinnately branched, densely villous; branchlets attenuated, distich- 

 ous, flexuous or recurved; leaves ovate and broad-ovate, short acu- 

 minate, more or less plicate, usually with a strong fold in the middle 

 obscuring the costa which extends half way, reflexed on the margin 

 and papillose on the back, with slender, branching filaments at the 

 basal angles; areolation elongated; capsule oblong-cylindrical, sub- 

 arcuated; operculum conic, acute; annulus broad. A dull yellow- 

 ish-green moss resembling in appearance, both H. abietinum and 

 II. PALUDOSUM. 



H. PALUDOSUM, SulUv. 



Swamps and bogs. Not uncommon. June. 



H. SQUARROSUM, L. 



Wet places, ground and stones. Catskill mountains, half way be- 

 tween the Mountain House and the Laurel House. Very rare. 



Sterile. 

 II. triquetrum, L. 



Ground in woods and swamps. Common and variable. Dec. -Mar. 

 H. brevirostre, Ehrh. 



Rocks and base of trees in mountains. Catskill mountains, below 

 Cautcrskill Falls. Middletown, Miss R. Waterburt. Rare in 

 fruit. November- April. 



Fruiting specimens were found in the localities mentioned. 



