444. CoKxer: NortTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF ENCALYPTA 
6. ENCALYPTA BREVICOLLA (B. S. G.) Bruch; C. Mill. Syn. 
I: 519. % 1849 
Encalypia longicolla var. brevicolla B. S. G. Bryol. Eur. (4:) 
Encalypta 12. 1838. 
Encalypta labradorica Kindb. Eur. & N. Am. Bryin. 2: 295. 1897. 
Encalypta subbrevicolla Kindb. Eur. & N. Am. Bryin 2: 295. 1897. 
Plants 1-1.5 cm. high; leaves 4-5 mm. long by I mm. wide, 
subacuminate, carinate; costa excurrent into long colorless hair- 
point, sometimes toothed at the base of awn, papillose on both 
surfaces; margins plane; upper cells of blade 12—16y in diameter, 
irregular; those at the hyaline base 40-48 long by about 16y wide, 
becoming narrower and colorless at the smooth margins; walls 
orange-colored, slightly thickened at ends; perichaetial leaves 
slightly shorter and broader. Monoicous; seta 1 cm. long, smooth, 
red; calyptra 5 mm. long by 1 mm. wide, very scabrous at the 
apex, papillose over the entire surface, lacerate at base; lid 2-2.25 
mm. high, with a red border; capsule about 3 mm. long by I mm. 
wide, not striate; neck short, stomatose, with large basal cells; 
annulus none; mouth bordered by 4—5 rows of small, thick-walled, 
quadrate cells; peristome double, deeply inserted; teeth .8 mm. 
high, irregularly broken and branched, usually united in pairs at 
base and perforate above, papillose; inner peristome similar and 
attached to the outer, median segments longer than the lateral 
ones; spores 28-32y, very rough. , _ 
TYPE LOCALITY: European. | ' : 
DistriBuTION: Labrador and, according to Paris Index, the 
_ eastern coast of Greenland. Also Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Bryol. Eur. pl. 202, 8. 1838. 
EXsICCATAE: None. 
7, ENCALyPTA PROCERA Bruch, Abh. Akad. Miinch. 1: 283. 1832 
Encalypta longipes Mitt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 8:29. 1865. 
Encalypta Selwyni Aust. Bot. Gaz. 2: 109. 1877. 
Leersia procera Lindb. Musci Scand. 20. 1879. = 
Leersia Selwyni E. G. Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 18: 50. 1891. 
Encalypta cucullata C. Mill. & Kindb.; Macoun, Cat. Can. FL oe 
96, in part. 1892. ae 
Plants 2-4 cm. high; leaves more or less spreading when dry = 
5-6 mm. long by 1 mm. wide; apical blade subspathulate, ape~ 
blunt; costa ending below apex, papillose on upper surface, sca . a 
brous on back; margin revolute above; upper cells 12-16 in a me 
eter, round; those of the hyaline base, 48-60u long by 12-16" Wi@@s 
