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line, capsule smooth; annulus none; calyptra fringed at the base: moncecious ; 
male flower gemmiform, axillary, — Rocks, Lake Superior, Agassiz: Jefferson 
County, New York. (Eu.) 
E. rhabdocarpa, Schweegr. Differs from the last by its longer- 
pointed or piliferous leaves, and longitudinally ribbed capsule; annulus present; 
calyptra not fringed at the base; peristome and inflorescence the same. — British 
America, Drensubd: (Tab. 16 ) (B.) 
ag omm ta, Nees & Hornsch. Stems more slender than in No. 
lea subsquarrose, ovate-lanceolate, gradually long-acuminate, concave, 
Robie on the margin; areol very small; costa excurrent; capsule smooth ; 
peristome none; annulus simple; base of the calyptra uneven, not fringed : mo- 
neecious. — British America, Drummond, (Eu.) 
4. streptocirpa, Hedw., Stems more elongated than in No. 1; 
leaves not so spreading, a" costate to the obtuse or cucullate apex ; cap- 
sule spirally ribbed; peristome double; teeth 16, filiform, nodose; annulus 
compound ; calyptra Coe at the apex, crenate at the base; inflorescence 
dicecious. — British America, Drummond.— The Alleghany specimens usually 
referred to this species are without fruit, and hence doubtful. (Eu.) 
29. SYRRHOPODON, Schwezgr. (Tab. 16.) 
Calyptra large, campanulate-conic, rostrate, cloven on one side. 
rostrum 
ice P 
without a medial line, short, nearly horizontal, inserted below the mouth of the 
capsule. Inflorescence dicecious or monecious. epee plants (the tropical 
representatives of Encalyptex), with densely cxspitose simple or dichotomously 
branched stems, and costate elongated- a leaves, from a — sheathing 
base composed of large pellucid rectangular ich el are minu 
opaque, and granulose. (Name from my ate connivent, and addr, a tooth, 
alluding to the horizontal position of the teeth of the peristome. 
1. S. Floridanus, Sulliv. Stems about 1’ high; leaves erect-patent 
from an amplexicaul base; the margins convolute, thickened, more or less nar- 
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shore of the Gulf of Mexico; also Florida: frequent. (Tab. 16.) 
Tre XI. ZYGODONTEX. 
30. ZYGODON, Hook & Tayl. (Tab. 16.) 
Calyptra small, cuculliform, smooth, oblique. Operculum obliquely rostrate 
from a conic base. — eae apophysate, striated, on a rather short 
pedicel, immersed or tome either — single, or absent; when 
species, growing on trees or on rocks, in large patches; stems with fastigiate 
branches, fertile at the apex; leaves linear-lanceolote, carinate, continuously 
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