12 MUSCI. (MOSSES.) 
and No. 8 may be sterile f i plete states of two species yet cnknown. 
They approach nearer to S. atolinn than to any other eat but their 
leaves have a closer reticulation, and are not papillose on the back near the 
apex, nor are the cortical utricles of the branches marked with a as they 
are in the last-named specie 
edoides, Brid. Form and ramification of the stem and cross- 
section of the leaf same as in the last, but a somewhat smaller plant, and not se 
flaccid; leaves mostly of a dark vinous red, oval, entire at the apex, not mar- 
gined; when dry absorbing moisture with difficulty ; flowers and fruit not seen 
— Springy places, on jag ge S. Carolina, Gray, Lesquereux: Mt, Marcy, 
New York, Yorrey.— (In the first-mentioned locality occurs an olive-green 
variety, (7) perhaps S. aes rid. — smaller in all its parts; branches 
somewhat numerous, short, t mostly snatts as with ep sg iy leaves, 
much smaller than the distantly p es. — (Muse. Bor.-Amer., No. 4.) 
% * Ducts oval, situated centrally between the rotund utricles, and extending to both 
surfaces of the leaf. 
9, S. squarrésum, Pers. oneecious ; stems 8/-12/ long, robust, 
rigid ; branches deflexed, attenuated, 5 in a fascicle ; branch-leaves ovate-acumi- 
— squarrose ; stem and perichzetial leaves hha, obtuse, not fibrillose.— 
gs, &c.; common in the Northern and Middle States, and westward.—A 
— species. (Eu.) 
10. 8S. macrophyliam, Bernhardi. Stems slender, stiff, reddish, 4’- 
6! long ; branches short, flat, flabelliform, 2-3 in a fascicle; branch-leaves ang 
subulate, straight, spreading, dentate at the apex ; utricles “ebsuagneed: with 7- 
pores in a line along the centre, and remarkable for the absence of a ven 
fibre ; capsule oblong, concealed by the perichetial leaves. — Swamps near the 
sea-coast, New Jersey to Florida: also Raccoon Mts., Alabama, Lesquer 
%* % * Ducts triangular, situated between the rotund utricles next the concave surface 
the lea 
11. S. ae iw hrh. Moneecious; stems 5/-10! long, slender; 
branches crowded, elongated, attenuated, mostly pendent; stem-leaves lingu- 
eronely resembling this, but a smaller species, wih or Ag leaves and dicecious 
inflorescence, may be looked for within our limits, 
12. 8. fimbriatum, Wils. Monccious; much like and formerly con: 
founded with No. 11, but a more delicate species, with fimbriated stem-leaves, 
and large, conspicuous, obovate, obtuse, and cucullate perichstial leaves. — 
British America, Drummond. (Ea.) 
13. 8S, tabulare, Sulliv. Stems 2’-3’ cs closely exespitose ; branches 
densely crowded, short, erect-patent ; stem-leaves large, ohlong, obtuse or acute, 
fibrillose ; branch-leaves ovate-acuminate, the upper half spreading and undulate 
on the margins; perichetial leaves lanceolate, acute, broadly bordered eg 
sporules gelden slow. —(S. acutifolium, var.? Muse. Alleghan.) — 
