64 MUSCI. (MOSSES.) 
ing; pedicels 5’ -6” high; leaves reflexed on the margins. — (Neckera brachy- 
clada, Mull. Synop. 2. p. 88.) —Old fences, logs, &c., forming dense brownish 
yellow patches. Fruits abundantly. (Tab.19.) (Eu.) 
Trine XXXI. CYLINDROTHECIES. 
75. CYLINDROTHECIUM, Bryol. Europ. (Tab. 19.) 
Calyptra dimidiate, narrow, elongated. Operculum conic-rostellate. Capsule 
eylindrical, erect, sedlecliate, annulate. Peristome double; the exterior 16 lin- 
ear distantly articulated teeth ; the interior 16 narrow carinate cilia, ae at 
the base ite a oli narrow membrane gna tea usually exserted. In 
ee us. — A very natural with prostrate and usually co coal 
stems, and oats inbrcing ecostate vollshed leaves, with a minute linear trans- 
parent areolation. (Name from xvAwédpos, a cylinder, and OnKn, a little case, 
referring to the shape of the sil e.) 
* Pedicels reddish, 
. C. cladorrhizans, Bryol. Europ. Stems 2/-3/ long; sparingly 
my subpinnately welled tieien oblong-ovate, acute, slightly serrulate at the 
apex, concave, indistinctly bicostate at the base ; operculum conic, with a thick 
tuse rostrum. — Woods, on old bogs, in large li Conspicuous by the broad 
flat branches, and greenish-yellow foliage, dashed with bright brown; very com- 
mon. (Tab.19.) (Eu.) 
. €. sedtetrix, Bryol. Europ. Separated from No. 1 by its less com- 
pressed, almost evlindeaead stems and branches. (Fruits much more abundantly, 
and affects humid situations.) — Margins of swamps, on old logs and roots of 
s. — Its numerous dark-red pedicels give it a striking character 
3. C. compréssum, Bryol. Europ. Near No. 1, but distinguished by 
its smaller size ; more compressed branches ; the leaves loosely imbricating, more 
concave, with an obtuse entire apex, and a more ncareng ation; shorter ovate- 
oval capsule; and substriate perichetial leaves. — (Les gi Poh Hedw.) — 
river-banks, subject to inundation, iver Ohio: rare. 
4. C. Sullivantii, (C. rag Bryol. Europ. A more slender species than 
any of the preceding ; stems and branches elongated, narrow, and quite flat; 
leaves laxly anger sac. than short-pointed ; annulus conspicuous ; 
operculum with a slender acute rostrum. — (Neckera Sullivan, Mull. Synop. 2. 
p. 65, 1850. C. Sie ste W. P. pre Bryol. Europ. fase. 46, 47, 1851.) 
— On stones, near the surface of the ground; banks of the French Broad River, 
North Carolina, 
* * Pedicels yellowish. 
5. C. Drummé6ndii, W.P. Sch. About the size of No. 1, which it 
much resembles ; but its stems and branches are more complanate ; leaves not 
80 closely fenbrieating ; teeth of the peristome perforated along the medial ~_ 
pre ees Spaagece sporules half the size; annulus nearly obsolete. 
Hook. § Wile. in’ Drum. 2d coll, No. 9% C. Arsgcer te, 
W. Pg Sch.?) — North Carolina, Ravenel: Texas, Wright. 
