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Dicranum fulvellum (Dixon) Smith 

 devices of rocks. Mt Mclntyre. Mrs Britton 



Dicranum montanum Hedw* 

 Decaying wood and base of trees. Common. Fertile. 



Dicranum viride Schimp. 



Campy lopus viridis S. & L. 



Prostrate trunks of trees and base of living trees. Usually sterile, but 

 fertile specimens were found at South Meadow and on the trail to 

 Wilmington notch. Easily known by its broken leaves. Mrs Britton. 



Dicranum flagellare Hedw. 



Decaying wood. Common, Easily known by the slender upright 

 flagellae which form young branches and suggest the specific name. A 

 peculiar form was found by Mrs Britton near Whiteface inn. Its stems 

 are long and slender, its 'flagellae few and its leaves secund. 



Dicranum fulvum Hook. 

 D. i?iterruptum Brid. 

 Rocks and boulders. Common. August and September. 



Dicranum longifolium Hedw. 

 Rocks and trunks of trees. Mt Jo, Avalanche trail and outlet of Lake 

 Placid. Less common in fruit, but conspicuous by its glossy leaves when 

 dry. Mrs Britton. Marcy trail and Indian pass. 



Dicranum Sauteri B. & S. 



Dead branches of spruce and balsam fir. Marcy trail and Mt 

 Mclntyre, also near Lake Placid. Closely related to the preceding 

 species from which it differs in its more tapering leaves which are less 

 serrulate and have more conspicuous auricles at the base. Not before 

 recorded in this state. It forms dense round cushions of a yellowish 

 green color. Mrs Britton. 



Dicranum fuscescens Turn. 

 Decaying wood and rocks. Common. 



Dicranum congestum Brid. 



Rocks. Cobble hill and Indian pass. It forms more dense cushions 

 than the preceding species. Mrs Britton. In the Ma?iual this is united 

 with D. fuscescens Turn. 



