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Bryol. Eur. t. 448. Hookeria lucens, Smith, Engl. Bot. t. 1902,
and Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. 275.
H a e . Decayed logs in dark shaded ravines; Oregon (F. Hall).
T r i b e XX. FABRONIEÆ.
Plants very small, creeping, in glossy green or small yellowish
tufts ; branches erect. Leaves crowded, spreading, ovate-
lanceolate, dentate or ciliate, rarely entire, soft ; areolation
loose, rhomhoidal, chlorophyllose ; costa short or none. Calyptra
cucullate, dimidiate. Capsule ovate, erect, symmetrical, distinctly
necked, short-pedicelled. Operculum somewhat large,
obtuse or rostrate. Peristome simple, of 8 higeminate or of 16
solid remotely articulate teeth ; absent in one species.
114. FABRONIA, Eaddl. (PL 4.)
Leaves very thin and delicate ; costa none or simple, obsolete.
Flowers monoecious. Capsule thin.
1. F. p u silla , Raddi. Cespitulose ; plants yellowish green :
leaves close and subsecund, or more distant and spreading,
ovate-lanceolate, prolonged into a long filiform acumen, lacin-
iate-dentate on the borders to below the middle, the laciniæ
sometimes long, with a few teeth ; costa none or very short :
capsule suhspherical, minute, truncate when empty ; lid large,
broadly convex-conical ; teeth 16, approximate in pairs, sometimes
bifid at the apex or splitting along the dividing line, yellow.
— Att. Accad. Siena, ix. 230 ; Schwaegr. Suppl. i. 2. 337,
t. 99 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 450.
Var. cilia ta . Cilia of the leaves longer. — F. Schimperiana,
DeNot. Briol. Ital. 228 ; Lindb. Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 71.
H a e . Bark of trees, Santa Fe, New Mexico (Fendler); Oakland, California
(Bolander).
2. F. g ym n o stom a , Sulliv. & Lesq. Much like the preceding,
differing in its shorter ciliate leaves, with a distinct
costa gradually diminishing to near the middle, and especially
in the absence of a peristome, the orifice of the capsule being
closed by a horizontal membrane. — Muso. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc.
n. 254 ; Sulliv. Icon. Muse. 136, t. 86.
Hab. Santa Fe, New Mexico (Fendler).
3. F. o c to b lep h a ris, Schwaegr. More robust, though very
small : leaves green, spreading in all directions or 2-ranked,
coarsely dentate on the borders, costate to below the middle :
capsule oval, with a more distinct neck and a longer pedicel ;
peristome of 8 geminate dark brown teeth, recurved when dry,
bifid only when old. — Suppl. i. 2. 338, t. 99, figs. a, h ; Bryol.
Eur. t. 451.
H a b . Athens, Illinois (F. Hall).
4. F. W rig h tii, Sulliv. Plants very small, delicate, loosely
cespitose, bright green ; stems fragile, stoloniferous : leaves
ojien, long-lanceolate, gradually subulate-acuminate, concave,
costate to the middle ; borders serrate or subciliate-deiitate ;
cells narrow, fusiform, the basilar and alar quadrate ; inner
perichætial leaves oblong, short-acuminate, ecostate : capsule
pyriform, including its neck ; teeth 16, approximate in pairs,
long-deltoid, orange-colored ; operculum conical, blunt at the
apex. — Mosses of U. States, 61, and Icon. Muse. 183, t. 84;
Sulliv. Æ Lesq. 1. c., n. 251.
H a b . San Marcos, Texas ( Wright).
Differs from the last in its conical (not Tnamillate) operculum, its
orange-yellow teeth, and the less numerous quadrate basal cells.
5. F. Ravenellii, Sulliv. Very much like the last, differing
in the nearly entire or obscurely serrate leaves, the brown
teeth, and the larger spores. — Mosses of U. States, 61, t. 4,
and Icon. Muse. 135, t. 85 ; Sulliv. Æ Lesq. 1. c. n. 262. F.
Caroliniana, Sulliv. & Lesq. 1. c., n. 253 ; Sulliv. Mosses of U.
States, 62.
H a b . Decayed logs; Santee Canal, South Carolina (Bavenel).
6. F. Donnellii, Aust. Leaves ohlong-lanceolate, sometimes
submarginate, obscurely serrate; costa obsolete; meshes
of the areolation narrow, the hasilar larger, subquadrate, inflated
: capsule oval, slightly curved ; teeth 16, large, incurved
and nearly horizontal wlien dry, erect when moistened, suh-
lanceolate, the dorsal articulations very prominent. — Coult.
Bot. Gaz. ii. 111.
H a b . On the branches of a Live Oak, Florida (J. Donnell Smith).
Mode of growth and form of capsule much as in Hypnum microcarpum,
but smaller in all its parts, with narrower aud more narrowly reticulated
leaves, the inflated cells at the basal angles more numerous, peristome
different, etc. Remarkable for the prominent articulations of the peristomal
teeth. — (Austin. ) We have seen no specimens. The description
agrees with the characters of Hypnum microcarpum, Muell., m the