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Lophozia venti'icosa grows on rocks in damp places, often on a perpendicu- 
lar surface, should be dark-green, and the sterile tufts are flattened; while 
Lophozia alpestr'is ranges from green in the shade to being usually consid- 
erably pigmented with brown, where at all exposed to the sun. Theoreti- 
cally, it does not like to live in the woods, but prefers open country. 
Specimens from the south side of the “ V ” at Waterville, 2500 ft. alt., 
with only afternoon sun, grew on damp granite slopes, mixed with Ju7iger- 
7nannia spJiaerocai'pa Hook, and Marsupella ema7'ginata (Ehrh.) Dum. 
and bore abundant spikes. 
Large brown plants from West Branch, near Osceola Camp, 1800 ft. alt., 
bore perianths with almost mature capsules, they were twice the size of the 
plants from the “ V,” and probably approach var. a. latio7’ of Nees.-*- 
The species is dioicous. Warnstorf^ says “ Antheridia united into short, 
almost cone-like terminal spikes,” but they are intercalary; there are five or 
six pairs of bracts, containing 1 - 3 , usually two, large, watery-green 
antheridia. 
Nees devotes many pages to this species, and describes sixteen varieties. 
According to Limpricht, however “his Ju7iger77ta7i7iia sicca is the plant 
of Lophozia alpesi7'is, and could only at such a time be considered as a 
separate species, when the greatest weight was laid upon the presence of 
underleaves.” 
Nees says “very rarely, and only in its larger forms, does it develop 
fruit. One finds perianths and capsules in late autumn and early in spring, 
after the snow has melted. The outline of the leaves is roundish-ovate 
ranging toward quadrate and very unequal. The dorsal or hinder edge 
is straighter, only rarely curving forward somewhat toward the base, the 
ventral or forward edge forms on the contrary always a stronger curve, 
which however soon flattens out more or less, only rarely are^all the leaves 
flat, usually their outer sides are strongly arched, the inner hollow, and then 
they are tilted obliquely forward and up, while the flatter leaves are spread 
out more sidewise The tips, bending toward each other, quickly upon the 
beginning of drying bend inward more and more tensely, whereby this 
species makes itself particularly easily recognizable. 
The leaves are quite stiff, thickish, smooth and shining, with a fatty 
shine, their color ranges from a fresh youthful green quite soon into a pale, 
yet more commonly into a reddish-yellow, from this into a dull red-brown 
and blackish-brown, and these colors, in most plants of this species, flow 
1. Nees. Naturges. der Em. Leberm. II p. 109, 1838. 
2 . Warnstorf. Ki'yptogamenfl. der Mark Brandenb. p. 183. 1903. 
