MUSCI. (MOSSES.) 25 
leaves oblong, sees apiculate, the costa vanishing near the apex; capsule 
oval-oblong, erect 0 sane €; operculum long-rostrate ; calyptra subulate from 
a mitriform lobed os ; inflorescence as in No. 2.—On the roots of trees, in 
swamps. (Eu.) 
* * Fruit axillary. 
. F. subbasilaris, Hedw. Stems 5'’-10" high, densely cmspitose, 
radiculose, branched ; leaves pre ng, obtuse, erat erodéd-dentic- 
ulate at the summit, near which the costa vanishes; capsule erect, ovat oblong 
on a pedicel arising pena near the base of the stem; peaicaienk m long-rostrate ; 
ealyptra cuculliform. — On decayed logs and trees, near the groun 
9. F. taxifolius, Hedw. Stems 5-8! high, branched and fasciculate 
moneecious; male flower gemmiform at the base of the fertile stem. — 
in sandy soil. se 15.) (Eu. 
10. F. a toides, Hedw. Stems much branched, 1/-3! long; leaves 
Sed haccotnte pene or 3 rows of the marginal cellules transparent ; 
costa percurrent; capsule oval-oblong, inclined ; pedicel from the middie of the 
stem ; operculum and calyptra as in No. 8; inflorescence as in No. 5.— Shaded 
moist places, on the ground, and on wet rocks. 
11. F. ee Hedw. Stems broad, 1-2’ high; leaves ovate- 
1 tad_ahionn 
; to apex; capsule 
abotats-obloeg:s jpceuilk subulate-rostrate from a large rather hemispherical 
base ; pedicel short, flexuous, arising from the upper a of the stem; calyptra 
cuculliform : dicecious. — Wet rocks, Georgia, Lesquereux. 
12. F. gra ns, Stems erect, 2’—3! high, sparingly branched ; 
cigs thea thick, composed of beveral strata of see the cos 
ing 
ache et flower and fruit unknown. — Niag ws periment side), 
n the perpendicular faces of rocks, moistened by pei spray. (Eu.) 
18. CONOMAITRIUM, Montagne. (Tab. 15.) 
Calyptra small, ara gaps arian et lobed at th Opere: 
hemispher eal apiculate. Capsule immersed spherical, nearly sessile, exan- 
nulate. Peristome none. my ILS moncceious or hermaphrodite: para- 
physes globosely distended at the apex.—-A genus, by its feeble dehiscence, ; 
globose capsule, and the characters of vegetation, forming an intermediate 
link between Physcomitrella among Cleistocarpous, and Physcomitrium 
among Stegocarpous Mosses. er from doavic, unapparent, and pijj}pa, 
rupture, or suture ; i. e. dehiseence obscure. 
1. C. Juliamum, Mont. ae: 2'-5! long, filiform, floating, much 
7 — distant, linear-lanceolate, acute, costate to the apex; capsule 
obconii into a short pedicel, the two together scarcely ioc than the 
senshi whose rostrum only is covered by the calyptra.--Ohio and south» 
ward, attached to stones in shallow brooks, &c. (Tab. 15.) (Eu.) . 
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