dimidiate: capsule soft, oblong, regular or slightly inclined,
thin, on a short soft pedicel; teeth narrowly lanceolate, thin,’
hyaline ; segments linear, carinate-plicate, orange, shorter than
the teeth, solid and narrow; membrane broad. —id. Lapp. 369;
Bryol. Eur. t. 471. NecJcera pulvinata, Muell. Syn. ii. 83.’
Myrinia pulvinata, Schimp. Syn. 482.
H a b . Canada and British Columbia, on trees (Macoun) ; very rare.
Schimper separates this species from Leskea as a new genus, Myrinia,
on account of the loose and smooth areolation of the leaves. ’
8. L. W o lle i, Aust. Plants very small, intricately cespitose,
irregularly or suhpinnately ramose and ramulose, greenish
brown above, reddish below : leaves of the primary stems
broadly deltoid-ovate, abruptly long-acuminate, those of the
branches narrower and shorter acuminate, those of the branchlets
somewhat rigid, ovate, acute or short-acuminate, concave,
imbrioate, slightly rugulose when dry, all very entire ; costa
broad, simple and longer, or unequally bifid ; cells rhomhoidal ;
those of the basilar angles and of the borders quadrate up to the
apex: fruit and flowers unknown. —Bull. Torr. Club, v. 22.
H a e . Niagara Falls (Wolle); Lake Superior (Macoun).
A very uncertain species, on which the author remarks tliat it is of about
the size and has much the general appearance of Hypnum adnatum; the
leaves much as in that species in position, sliape and areolation, but
more concave, and the areolation shorter; the stem-leaves shaped somewhat
as in Hypnum hispidulum, but more concave, with a more abrupt
longer and more flexuous point, and with entire margins. In a small fragment
communicated by the author, the leaves are found to be nerveless
or the costa bifid at base, as in Hypnum adnatum. It appears to be a
variety of that species.
121. ANOMODON, Hook. & Tayl. (PI. 5.)
Primary stem creeping, stoloniferous; fertile branches erect;
branchlets fasciculate or irregular. Stem-leaves distant, minute,
hard; those of the branches more crowded, spreading or
secund; areolation minute, very chlorophyllose, papillose on
both faces (except in A. Toccooe). Flowers dioecious. Calyptra
long. Capsule erect, oblong or cylindrioal, regular, chestnut-
colored, coriaceous. Teeth pale, linear-lanceolate ; segments
short, linear, more or less irregular from a narrow membrane.
Annulus narrow or none.
1. A. ro s tr a tu s , Schimp. Densely cespitose; tufts bright
green at the surface, ochreous within ; primary stems fasoicu-
lately ramose, brittle, with flliform innovations : leaves densely
imbricate, ovate at base, narrowly lanceolate and long-apiculate,
with a solid costa vanishing below the apex ; perichætium long,
whitish, with thin ecostate leaves, the inner narrowed into a
filiform reflexed point as long as the leaves : capsule short-pedioellate,
oval-ohlong, reddish-brown ; lid long-beaked ; segments
nearly as long as the teeth, carinate, dirty yellow, with cilia
solitary or rudimentary or none. — Syn. 488. Leskea rostrata,
Hedw. Spec. Mnsc. 226, t. 55 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 473 ; Sulliv. Mosses
of U. States, 59.
H a b . Roots of trees, in woods; not rare.
2. A. a tte n u a tu s , Hueben. Plants in loose wide tufts;
secondary stems fasciculately ramose, incurved at the apex,
mixed with flagelliform sometimes very long stolons: leaves
suhsecnnd, narrowed and decurrent at the ovate base, lanceolate
above, blunt and apiculate at the apex, very densely papillose
on both faces ; perichætial leaves lanceolate-acuminate from an
ovate base : capsule long, cylindrical, straight or slightly curved,
reddish brown, shining ; pedicel long, twisted ; teeth narrowly
lanceolate; segments filiform, fragile and irregular; annulus
narrow. —- Muso. Germ. 562 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 475. Leskea attenuata,
Hedw. Muse. Frond, i. 33, t. 12. Hypnum attenuatum,
Schreb. ; Muell. Syn. ii. 473.
H a b . On rocks, roots and trunks of trees where miid is deposited by
inundations; very common along rivers.
3. A. ob tu sifo liu s, Bruch & Schimp. Loosely and rvidely
cespitose, glaucous-green, dirty red when old ; primary stems
creeping, flagellate, the secondary straight, simple or divided at
base : leaves two-ranked, lingul.ate-ohtuse from an ohlong-ovate
base, thick, opaque, minutely round-areolate ; costa pellucid,
vanishing below the apex ; upper perichætial leaves long-
sheathing, longer lingulate at the apex : capsule short, ovate or
elliptical, on a short pedicel ; teeth nodose-artionlate, linear-
lanceolate and subulate; segments very short from a very
narrow membrane, often abortive ; annulus large. — Lond.
Journ. Bot. ii. 668 (1843) ; Sulliv. Icon. Muse. 119, t. 74. A.
minor, Fuern. ; Lindh. Faun. FL Fenn. ix. 267.
H a b . On trunks of trees, near water-courses, in the Middle States;
common.