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36 MUSCI. (MOSSES.) 
nte and wh 
ture, d Ilules ; capsule rotund-oval, 
its month waall teeth of the peristome bitten a divided to the base; annulus large, 
unrolling. — (Muse. Alleghan., No. 135.) — On rocks, Pennsylvania and south- 
ward, (Tab. 16.) 
rumm6ndii, Hook. & Wils. Somewhat larger than the pre- 
ceding; leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, crisped when dry; teeth of the peri- 
stome more or less perforated, inserted below the mouth of the oblong-oval 
capsule; annulus none. — On trees, Southern States. 
Trise XV. GRIMMIEZ. 
36. SCHISTIDIUM, Br. & Sch. (Tab. 16.) 
Calyptra small, not extending to the mouth of the capsule, conic-mitriform and 
lacerate at the base, or cuculliform and entire at the base. Operculum oe 
smn papillate or shortly rostellate, deciduous with the columella attached. 
C roundish-oval, oval-oblong, or obovate, wide-mouthed, deed: with 2 
short erect pedicel. Peristome aint teeth 16, lanceolate, cribrose. Inflores- 
rowing in circular more or less 
(chiefly sascuiatatas’’ stems simple, or dichotomously 
branched sd finiaiasa leaves of a rigid and rather brittle texture, crowde 
spreading, ovate-lanceolate, aigcangeinis concave below, channelled above, usually 
he margins, 
costate, mostly tipped with a pellucida hair- 
3 areol t ly quadrate, those at the base larger, oblong 
_ — (Name from éyiies to split, the base of the calyptra being ‘ 
ated.) 
cin 
1, S. apocarpum, Br. & Sch. Loosely cxspitose ; stems 4-1! long, 
upper leaves usually with white points; capsule elliptical, firm; teeth of peri- 
stome sometimes entire, pigs -red; annulus none; calyptra 5-lobed at the 
mon. ~-Molings blackish-green ; subject to numerous 
forms, Jelldine: on cade. (Tab. 16.) (Eu.) 
twice rocks near the sea, Eastport, 
as. PY Sag i "Riess 
3. S. confértum, Br. & Sch. necro No. 1 exceedingly ; tufts more 
compact ; leaves less lurid, their margins capsule oval or 
ot so recurved ; 
roundis h, of at beg inner —— palereoord = Se teeth of the peri- 
hair-point ; capsule 
; calyptra the same. — 
New “oan Oakes. — A variety with eer leaves occurs on the White 
‘Mountains. (Eu.) 
4.8. am Sulliv. Near the preceding, but has larger and 
c-lanceolate patichectial leaves, with a long, flexnons, dentate, pellucid 
oval-oblong ; calyptra euculliform. — (M: Acad, 
A EE et 170.) — Dry rocks, Santa Fé, N. Mex co, Fendler. 
