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scending to base of capsule, scabrous one third down from apex; 
spores. minutely punctate, about 14 yw in diameter. [Fic. 16.] 
TYPE LOCALITY: Texas. 
DISTRIBUTION: Texas to Florida and Georgia. 
17. SYRRHOPODON LIGULATUS Mont. Syll. 47. 1856 
Syrrhopodon crispus Aust. Bot. Gaz. 2: 109. 1877. 
Growing in compact, brownish green tufts with mostly simple 
stems up to 1.5 cm. high; stem-leaves with conspicuously white, 
imbricate base, crispate above when dry, 2—2.5 mm. long from an 
obovate-lanceolate basé, entire to somewhat serrulate in upper 
part, slightly narrowed to a lingulate, grooved point, from scarcely 
as long to about one and one half times longer than the base, with 
rounded apex and margin crenulate-papillose with short green 
cells except in lower part, where a narrow, hyaline border of 
elongate cells is usually present; costa nearly or quite percurrent, 
slightly serrulate on back toward the apex, smooth below, about 
one eighth the width of leaf half way up, in cross-section showing 
toward the base four guide-cells, in upper half mostly two or three 
guide-cells with stereid bands above and below and no differen- 
tiated outer cells, the upper stereid band small, often of only three 
or four cells; cells of upper blade mostly obscure, not elongate, 
6-8 u in diameter, mamillate and densely papillose on both sides; 
cancellinae nearly filling the enlarged base, mostly broad and 
rounded above; perichaetial leaves about like those of the stem; 
seta 3-4 mm. long; capsule ovate, scarcely 1 mm. long; peristome 
teeth golden brown, projecting well above the mouth, rather 
rough, with indistinct articulations; spores rough, 12-15 in 
diameter; lid and calyptra not seen. [Fic. 17.] 
TYPE LOCALITY: Guiana. Lait 
DisTRIBUTION: Florida, Guadeloupe and Guiana. 
18. SYRRHOPODON PARASITICUS (Sw.) Besch. Ann. Sci. Nat. 
VIII. 1: 298. 1895 | 
Bryum parasiticum Sw. Prodr. 139. 1788. 
Encalypta parasitica Sw. Ind. Occ. 1759. 1806. 
Calymperes parasiticum Hook. & Grev. in Brewster, Edinb. Jour. 
Sci. 1: 131, 1824. s. as Lalede 
Dioicous, the male plants with often two or three rather con- 
spicuous, scattered buds, the inner perigonial leaves very short, 
broadly ovate-acute, enclosing numerous antheridia about 0.33 
mm. long, without paraphyses: plants scattered or in loose tufts 
