MUSCI. (MOSSES.) 11 
| = cymbifolium, Dill. Dicecious ; stems robust, 6/-18! long ; 
es 4-6 in a fascicle, tamid, mostly obtuse ; stem-leaves spatulate, not 
on branch-leaves imbricated, ovate, cucullate and entire at the apex; 
apsule with stomata in its wall. — Bogs, &e. ; mon. — A large species, dis- 
eins from its congeners by the sharp euba: on the back of the leaf near 
the apex, and by the strie on the walls of the cortical utricles of the branches. 
(Tab. me Abs 
Ss mpactum, Brid. Diccious ? stems erect, 2/-5/ high, densely 
sivacidade wih one — of aan Series branches 2-3 in a aos short, 
crowded, ere rved-spread g, broadly mar- 
gined, euneats agen toothed at the apex ; siete with small pores, those at the 
point of the narrowly acuminated perichetial leaves not fibrillose. — (S. stric- 
cr Muse, Alleghan., No. 201.) — Springy wr on high visintahies Southern 
tes, Lesquereux, Curtis, Buckley. (Eu.) 
3. S. contértam, Schultz. seer stiff and dark-colored ; stems 
4’—6! high; branches attenuated, more or less contorted; branch-leaves rather 
ort ovate-lanceolate, of a firm texture ; utricles very narrow, with a row of 
mall pores on each side. — Cranberry marshes, Northern Ohio, Locusts (Eu.) 
escurii, Sulliv. (Muse. Bor.-Amer., No. 6.) Aspect same as 
that of small forms of No. 1; ramification and mode of growth loose; branches 
2-3 in a fascicle, distant; siniashiaiies lingulate, obtuse, the utricles fibrillose ; 
branch-leaves ee truncate - den e apex, the ducts cunet 
form-elliptic, ap f the leaf; perichzetial leaves ee 
large, when flattened oval-ovate ; capsule oblong- vishioee, ERE: ex 
serted.— Wet sandy places among the mountains of Alabama; i 
aoe Virginia, Lesquereux. 
. S. témerum, Sulliv. & Lesqx. (Musc. Bor.-Amer., No. 11.) Stems 
oe high, czespitose ; branches crowded, deflexed ; stem-leaves large, ovate- 
lanceolate, the utricles illose ; branch-leaveés ovate-lanceolate, imbricated ; 
scarcely emergent. — Margins of rivulets; Raccoon Mountains, Alabama, Les- 
quereux. 
6. S. himile, Schimper. Czspitose; stems 1/-2! high, with 3 layers 
of cortical utricles; branches crowded, spreading, 2-3 in a fascicle; branch- 
leaves ovate-lanceolate, the upper half horizontal, truncate and dentutes at the 
apex, narrowly margined ; utricles broad, with large TSE Seo Flor. 
7. S. cyclophyllum, Sulliv. & Lesqx. (Muse. Bor. lider No. 5.) 
Stems 2/—3! long, thick, turgid, flaccid, with only one layer of cortical utricles, 
mostly simple, rarely with a few scattered branches, not in fascicles ; leaves pale 
greenish-white, narrowly margined, somewhat constricted at base, tlaaediy imbri- 
cated, oblong-rotund, entire at apex ; ducts as in No. 5; flowers and fruit un- 
known. (S. cymbifolium, var. turgidum, Hook. §- Wils. in Drum. 2d Coll. No. 
7.) —New Orleans, Drummond: mountains of Alabama, Lesquereux.— (This | 
