66 MUSCI. (MOSSES.) 
trate, rooting copiously from the under side ; leaves dark-gree hat close, 
serrulate at the apex; costa extending more than half-w “way ; aisle lintel 
cal; ciliole of the inner peristome long ; operculum conic, shortly rostrate. — 
On the roots of trees, San Antonio, Texas, Wright: also Santa Fé, New Mex- 
ico, Fendler. (Tab. 19.) 
Tre XXXII HOOKERIEZ. 
78. HOOKERIA, Smith. (Tab. 19.) 
Calyptra conic-mitriform, shortly lobed at the base. Operculum conic-rostrate. 
Capsule oval, horizontal, pedicellate. Peristome double ; the exterior 16 linear- 
lanceolate and closely articulated teeth; the interior 16 carinate lanceolate-subu- 
late cilia, mangers from a broad plicate membrane. Inflorescence moncecious. — 
rge handsome species, with an sneha sparse a broad and 
flat stems and branches, and complanate shining membranaceous 
very loose areolation, formed by large oval-hexagonal patie cellules. — (Named 
after Sir Wm. J. Hooker.) —(Tab. V. contains a figure of the type of the genus, 
Hookeria lucens, with ecostate and obtuse leaves, which has not been detected 
or this continent, except in Oregon.) 
1. MH. acutifolia, Hook.? Grows on the ground, beneath dripping 
rocks, Southern Ohio, and Alleghany Mountains, in Pennsylvania and North 
Carolina. — Our specimens, as far as we are able to determine, (being without 
fruit,) agree well with H. acutifolia, Hook., an East-Indian species, which appears 
to differ from H. lucens, Smith, only in its acute leaves. 
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Terme XXXIV. CLIMACIEX 
79. CLIMACIUM, Web.&Mobr. (Tab. 19.) 
ee dimidiate, somewhat twisted, long, embracing the top of the pedicel 
um saree Capsule oval-oblong or cylindrical, erect, long-ped- 
icelled. Peristome doub or exterior 16 linear-lanceolate, closely articulated 
teeth ; the interior 16 ie asia carinate, lacunose cilia, connected at the 
base by a very narrow membrane. Columella emergent. Inflorescence dice- 
cious. — Large and striking Mosses, of a tree-like aspect. — (Name from «Aipa- 
«tov, a litile ladder, from the fe RES of the cilia of the inner peristome.) 
1. C. Americanum, B Main stems rhizoma-like, subterraneous ; 
primary —_———* — ca SP -3 teh), heow simple, farished "with small and 
ave branched ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, 
auriculate at the base, concave, plicate, costate nearly to the apex, serrate above, 
a minute elliptical areolation ; capsule cylindrical. —On the ground, or 0D 
very much decayed logs, in moist shady woods. (Tab.19.) (Eu.) 
C. pexprotpes, Web. = —_: schemes in Europe, x with - —- and 
capsule, obtuse 
Se ee, and ferries scareriaecion key 
Gampshire, Oakes. 
