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soil, and on ledges of rock, mixed with Polytricha and lichens. In its most 
luxuriant form it is dark red, and prostrate, producing in great abundance its 
capsules, which mature about the first of August. The perianths are whitish 
and hyaline in the upper part. A heavily fruited patch is quite distinguish- 
able with the naked eye, with a little practice. 
One of its colonies looks not unlike one of Marsupella ustulata , except 
that it is dark red instead of almost black. With a lens the creeping 
stems have the appearance -of little chains, like Temnoma, the leaves on 
robust stems being quite imbricated. 
The White Mountain specimens are much more robust and deeply colored 
than those from the trap ledges about Hartford. While equally common, it 
is green, and but little pigmented, being apt, especially the fertile plants, 
to grow mingled with tufts of Leucobryum. 
Dr. Evans says “the paroicous inflorescence maybe demonstrated by 
mounting astern with a perianth or 2 inflorescence by itself, crushing it by 
rubbing the cover glass gently to and fro, and then examining the debris. 
You will then have little trouble in finding archegonia, and the antheridia, 
although empty and shriveled, will still show their stalks, consisting of a 
single row of cells, and their thin and delicate walls.” 
The lobes of the involucral leaves of C. myriantha are broad, with a nar- 
row sinus, lobes jagged-serrate, and hardly bleached out, except on the outer- 
most edges. Cells very thick-walled. The stem leaves of good robust plants 
are practically secund, much broader in outline, and with a much narrower 
sinus than those of C. divaricata . Cellulae minutulae pulchre gut- 
tulatae. Vegetative reproduction by means of oval gemmae on the tips of 
sterile shoots. 
The writer has examined specimens of C. myriantha from Mts. Lafay- 
ette, Osceola, Tecumseh, Sandwich Dome, Carrigain, and the Scaur, from 
altitudes ranging from 5300-2300 ft., and from Connecticut stations along the 
Talcott Range, at an average altitute of 500 ft. 
In regard to C. divaricata (Sm.) Schiffn. European writers differ as to 
what is the true C. divaricata. Spruce includes in this species many forms, 
the two most important of which, however, are separated by Warnstorf into 
C. divaricata (Sm.) Warnst. and C. byssacea (Roth.) Warnst., distin- 
guished by what would seem good and sufficient characters, as follows: 
C. divaricata . Leaf lobes divergent and cell-walls thin, involucral 
bracts, with long, narrow lobes, entire or subentire, bleached only on edges, 
inflorescence elongate-clavate, underleaves only in the inflorescence. Plant 
of damp localities. 
C. byssacea. Leaf lobes broader and with a narrow sinus, cell walls 
rather thick, but not as much so as in C. myriantha , involucral bracts broader 
than in C. divaricata, spinose-dentate, hyaline i’n the upper part, cells 
thick walled. Inflorescence rosette-shaped. Underleaves variable, but 
present in the inflorescence. Plant of dry ground. 
Stephani and Massalongo agree with Warnstorf, but Schiffner does not. 
“He states that J. divaricata Sm. —J. byssacea Roth., and keeps Smith’s. 
