papillate lid, and the inner peristome free above, the segments
of the membrane being long, carinate and split, the intermediate
cilia merely rudimentary. — Bryol. Eur. t. 334. Pohlia inclinata,
Swartz, Muse. Suec. 45 and 96, t. 5, fig. 11.
Ha b . Stones, rocks and decayed trunks; plains and mountains.
Common on the Pacific slope; rare in the East.
6. B. W a rn eum , Bland. Cespitose ; stems radiculose,
short, simple or sparingly branched ; innovations on short round
or flagelliform branchlets : stem-leaves distant, open, ovate or
oblong-lanceolate, short-cuspidate by the excurrent slightly serrate
costa ; borders narrowly margined, reflexed below, flat in
the upper part ; comal leaves numerous, loosely imbricate :
flowers monoecious, rarely bisexual ; male flowers terminal ;
antheridia with few paraphyses : capsule long-pedicelled, abruptly
pendent, ovate and suhglohose-pyriform, solid, brown ; lid
mamillate, persistent ; teeth solid, orange-colored below ; segments
free, narrow, scarcely split ; cilia none or rudimentary ;
annulus compound. — Brid. Bryol. Univ. i. 675; Bryol. Eur.
t. 340.
Hab. Foot of Mount Dana, California {Bolander),
American specimens are found to differ slightly from European. The
tufts are generally compact, the segments of the inner peristome are
more or less split open, and the cilia either none or rudimentary or some
of them long and appendiculate; the leaves also are less distinctly denticulate
at the apex, and bordered by a distinct margin formed of 2 or 3 rows
of long narrow cells. This form appears to be a transition to the next.
7. B. Biddlecomiæ, Aust. Differs from P . Warneum in
the leaves being very distinctly margined, revolute on the
borders and very obscurely serrate at the apex, and the capsule
larger, with muticous or minutely papillose lid : stems rather
short, branching by innovations, often flagelliform as in P.
Warneum : leaves cuspidate by the stout excurrent costa : capsule
constricted under the month, pale, becoming light fuscous ;
the lid rather large. — Coult. Bot. Gaz. ii. 110.
Hab. Colorado (Miss H. J. Biddlecome).
From an examination of specimens communicated by the author the
essential differences are in the form of the capsule, which is less inflated,
less distinctly pyriform, and broad-mouthed, and in the more distinctly
revolute borders of the leaves.
8. B. la cu s tre , Brid. Widely cespitose; stems short,
radiculose, with longer branches : leaves solid, chlorophyllose,
the lower distant and small, broadly ovate-acuminate, the
upper large, open, tufted, broadly oblong-acuminate, carinate-
concave, with borders reflexed ; areolation large, hexagonal ;
costa strong, brownish, vanishing below or within the very
entire apex : vaginule covered with paraphyses ; flowers bisexual
: capsule on a slender more or less elongated flexuous
pedicel, inclined or subpendent, oblong-pyriform, slightly
incurved, soft ; peristome short, as in P. Warneum. — Muso.
Recent. Suppl. iv. 120 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 332.
Hae. Peninsula of Shumagin, Alaska (Harrington).
9. B. flexuosum, Aust. Plants loosely cespitose ; stem
dividing by short innovations, erect : leaves pale red, erect,
ovate, suhconoave, acuminate, plane or recurved on the very
entire borders ; costa strong, percurrent or excurrent : flowers
dioecious (?) ; male flowers terminal, large, discoid : capsule on
a long slender flexuous red pedicel, ovate-oblong, pale, subhorizontal
; lid large, depressed-conical, minutely mamillate ; inner
peristome adhering to the teeth ; cilia none. — Coult. Bot. Gaz.
iv. 152.
H ab. Gravelly ground, Biackwater River, British Columbia (Macoun).
Apparently nearly related to the last, if not a variety of it ; differing only
in the inflorescence, which appears to he dioecious. The short reddish
stems, and the long flexuous pedicel, which the author indicates as distinctive
characters, are those of B. lacustre.
10. B. ca lo p h y llum , R. Brown. Plants gregarious or subcespitose
: stem-leaves distant, round-ovate, obtuse, the upper
closer, loosely imbricated in loose obtuse gemmules, the lower
broadly ovate or oval-ohlong, narrowed into a short blunt ]3oint,
all fleshy, very concave and entire, with the border plane or
slightly recurved, not margined ; costa vanishing below the
apex ; perichætial leaves smaller and narrower, the inner lanceolate
: male flowers gemmiforrn at the base of the female :
capsnle pyriform, short-necked, slightly contracted under the
orifice when dry, abruptly pendent on a long strict rigid pedicel ;
segments of the inner membrane yellow, narrow and split ; cilia
none or solitary and rudimentary : spores large, green, smooth.
■—App. Parry’s Voy. Suppl. 296. P. latifolium, Bruch &
Schimp. Bryol. Eur., t. 339.
H ab. Melville Island (Parrj/); Franconia Mountains (James); Santa
Barbara, California ( W. L. Foster).
11. B. ulig in o sum , Bruch & Schimp. Stem densely radiculose,
branching into short innovations : lower leaves short.