56 MUSCI. (MOSSES.) 
Tre XXV. CRYPHEEZ. 
61. CRYPH ZA, Mohr. (Tab. 19.) 
_ walypice (phmecscioudes peptic: a pe is small. Operculum conic, 
-oblong, , annulate. Peristome 5a doable 
the: exterior 16 Iancoolae salto teat remotely articulated, Esevgraee’ the 
interior 16 subulate cilia, the basilar membrane nearly obsolete. Inflores- 
cence monecious ; ‘thuctlie oval, eae long pedicels and ‘dies paraphyses, 
— Rather siosries Mosses, growing on trees, with leafless creeping stems a 
ascending or pendulous and F tidinapté densely leafy branches, bearing in lines 
or clusters numerous perichztia enveloping the capsule. (Name from xpypaios, 
hidden, in allusion to the concealed capsule.) 
1. C. glomerata, W.P. Sch. The ascending branches nearly simple, 
1' long; leaves crowded; when dry sainhioe: when moist recurved-spreading, 
ovate-acuminate, mi mntelyaerrnlate at the apex, semi-costate, with a minute oval 
areolation; annulus broad; perichetial leaves obovate-oblong, suddenly cuspi- 
date. —(Daltonia heteromalla, var. Hook. § Wils. in Drum. Muse. 2d coll. No. 
99.) — Southern States: common. — Larger than the European C, heteromalla, 
Brid., with more vonage spreading leaves, much shorter peristome, and larger 
al (Tab. 1 
2..€. sn Hook & Wils. Has the aspect of No. 1; leaves when 
dry erect, not appressed, with recurved margins; costa extending to the point; 
split on one side; apes narrow ; Sage leaves longer-lanceo- 
late sie papillose on the — Grows wit! 
3. C. inundata. es Neuvied Pash rai pendulous, loosely 
pinnately-branched ; -. recurved at the apex; leaves distant, oblong- 
lan 
ceolate, carinate, ower ones complicate, ce costa heavy, excnrtet 
capsules oval, unilateral on the stems, immersed in the long ecostate perich: 
a aniial cilia of the interior peristome red, persistent, incurved at the apex, 
es of ta Wabash, Fox, and Black Rivers, Illinois. — Scarcely a Ste 
very probably Dichelyma subulatum, or a closely allied species. 
Tre XXVI.. LEUCODONTES. 
62. LEUCODON, Schwegr. (Tab. 18.) 
oe dienidione,, large, clasping: the pedicel. Opercalmm cate 
Peri- 
. stome-double ; the.extérior: 16 linear-ecuminate, whitish, granulated teeth more 
or less perforated along the medial line; the interior (when present) a simple 
annular membrane extending 4 the length of the teeth. Inflorescence dicecions. 
— Species of moderate size, with a filiform and leafless creeping primary stem, 
