* * * Flowers dicecious.
Maie flowers gemmiforrn.
21. B. e ry th ro c a rp um , Schwaegr. Plants short, simple,
or with few branches : leaves erect, distant, open, rigid, ovate-
lanceolate or lanceolate, denticulate at the apex or entire, cuspidate
by the excurrent costa; borders slightly reflexed; capsule
inclined or pendent, oblong or obconical, pyriform, hlood-
red; lid highly convex, apiculate; teeth pale, ferruginous; segments
whitish yellow. — Suppl. i. 2. 100, t. 70 ; Bryol. Eur.
t. 376. B. sanguineum, Brid. Muse. Recent. Suppl. iii. 28 •
Sulliv. Mosses of U. States, 46. ’ ’
H a b . Mountains of Northern Alabama (Lesquereux) ; rare.
22. B. atropurpureum, Wahl. Loosely cespitose; stems
radiculose up to the base of the fertile tufts : lower leaves distant,
ovate-lanceolate, the upper crowded, tufting, much longer,
ovate-acuminate, apiculate by the excurrent costa, concave’
very entire; borders reflexed toward the base; areolation
loose: male plants slender: capsule turgid at the ruo-ulose
collum, broadly oval, blood-red or dark purple when old ;“ pedi-
cel flexuous, arched above ; lid enlarging above the orifice of
the capsule, hemispherical and apiculate, bright red and shining;
teeth reddish at base; segments yellowish. — Web. & Moln-
Ind. Muse. 360 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 378. B . erythrocarpon, Brid!
1. c. iii. 18.
H a b . Sandy soil; Lookout Mountain, Alabama (Lesquereux)-, B u f falo,
New York (G. W. Clinton}-, Pennsylvania (James); Illinois (Hall)-
Nevada ( Watson). ' n
23. B. co ro n a tum , Schwaegr. Loosely tufted, tomentose
withm, bright green on the surface; branches slender, soft,
loosely foliate: leaves erect-spreading, ohlong-lanceolate, mucronate
or long-cuspidate by the excurrent thin eosta; borders
flat, entire; perichætial leaves enlarged at base, abruptly lanceolate
: capsule pendent and torulose, rugulose at base ; lid large,
conical or highly convex-apiculate, thick on the borders, purple,’
Shining. — Suppl. i. 2. 103, t. 71 ; Muell. Syn. i. 307.
M a e . Florida (D. B. Smith, Garber, J. Donnell Smith).
The areolation of the leaves is like that of B. carneum. The capsule
resembles that of the last species, but is thick and fleshy, abrupt and
crown-like at the insertion of the pedicel; peristome of the same char-
^e.ter. A flue species.
24. B. v e r sico lo r , Al. Braun. Mode of growth as in B.
atropurpureum; branches rigid, densely foliate: leaves erect-
spreading, ovate-lanceolate, cuspidate by the thick brown excnrrent
costa; borders entire, slightly revolnte ; capsule ahruptt
ly pendent, on a rigid pedicel, round-oval, with a short hemispherical
collum, reddish, much smaller when dry, broadmouthed
when deoperculate, constricted between collum and
sporangium; lid large, convex-apiculate. — Bryol. Eur. t. 379.
Hab. Florida (D. B. Smith) ; rare.
25. B. a lp in um , Linn. Densely and widely cespitose:
plants chestnut-colored or purplish brown, shining, robust, short
and erect, or long and decumbent below, radiculose at the base
only, densely and equally foliate: leaves erect, rigid, lanceolate
or oblong-lanceolate ; costa stout, purplish, excurrent into a
short point, entire or obscurely serrate at the apex ; borders reflexed
in the middle : capsule pendent, ovate-ohlong or obconical
pyriform, its somewhat long collum gradually attenuated
into the pedicel, solid, blood-red or dark purple when old,
slightly constricted under the orifice ; lid mammiform ; outer
peristome ferruginous: spores yellowish green. —Mant. Alt.
309 ; Bryol. Eur, t. 380.
Hab. Wliite Mountains (Oakes, James).
26. B. Muhlenbeckii, Bruch & Schimp. Closely resembles
the preceding, differing in the olive-green color of the
tufts, the leaves broader, long-elliptical, deeply concave, loosely
areolate, more or less obtuse and cucullate at the apex, borders
reflexed all around : capsule chestnut-colored, not purplish. —
Bryol. Eur. t. 381. B . Baui, Aust. in Coult. Bot. Gaz. ii. 110.
Hab. New Mexico (Palmer); Belleviile, Ontario, Canada (Macoun).
27. B. m iu ia tum , Lesq. Densely cespitose, yellowish
green and purplish ; stems radiculose, slender, long and mostly
simple or dividing by nearly filiform innovations from under the
floral buds : leaves appressed when dry, loosely imbricate, the
upper more crowded but not tufted, concave, ovate or ovate-
lanceolate, obtuse, scarcely or not at all margined or reflexed
on the borders ; costa stout, vanishing below the apex ; cells
polygonal, solid or thiok-walled ; perichætial leaves slightly
longer and narrower: capsule in c l in e d , obovate-oblong, slightly
constricted under the orifice when dry, purplish-fawn coloi ; lid
convex or conical, apiculate. — Mem. Calif. Acad. 1. 23.