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pulchellum, Hedw. Spec. Musc. 265, t. 68. Eurhynchium
strigosum, Bruch & Schimp. Biyol. Eur. t. 519.
H a b . Sliady sandy ground, in hilly regions and mountains; common.
71. H. diversifolium, Schimp. Ms. Much like the last;
tufts more compact, dirty yellow, stoloniferous ; branches and
branchlets shorter, erect, julaceous : branch-leaves closer, those
of the branchlets ovate, obtuse, narrowly costate or ecostate,
more distinctly serrulate; perichætial leaves subsquarrose,
ecostate. — Eurhynchium diversifolium, Bruch & Schimp.
Bryol. Eur. t. 520. Æ strigosum, var. diversifolium, Lindb.
Muse. Soand. 34.
H a b . Dry sandy hills, under chestnut trees, Ohio (Lesquereux);
shaded banks, New Jersey (Austin).
72. H. Boscii, Schwaegr. Plants robust, in wide loose dark
golden yellow mats; stems prostrate, subpinnately branching;
branches mostly simple, obtuse, turgid, terete-foliate : leaves
closely imbricate, clasping at base, ohlong-ovate, narrowed to a
twisted filiform point, coohleariform, concave, scarious, shining,
shortly hicostate or simply costate to the middle; areolation
narrowly linear, the basilar cells shorter, thick, yellowish brown;
Iiericiiætial leaves narrowly long-acuminate, the inner erect:
capsule oblong, erect-incurved, annulate ; segments more or less
split ; cilia three, solid, and nearly as long. — Suppl. i. 2. 223 ;
Sulliv. Mosses of U. States, 70, and Icon. Muso. 167,1.106. H.
illecebrum, Hedw. Spec. Muso. 252, t. 66, excl. syn.
IIa b , On the ground and on sandstone rocks in hilly wooded districts;
not nncoinmon, but rarely in fruit.
This fine moss is withoiit close analogy to any other species.
-1- -f- Pedicel rough.
73. H. colpophyllum, Sulliv. Ms. Tufts soft, wide,
dirty green ; steins prostrate ; branchlets close, erect, tumid :
leaves scarious, open, loosely incumbent, ovate, concave,
abruptly acuminate, blunt at tlie apex ; costa stout, prominent
on the back, abruptly disappearing above the middle and
toothed at the apex ; areolation long-linear, acutely hexagonal,
the alar and basilar cells nearly similar: capsule cyliiidrioal-
oblong, slightly incurved, constricted under the orifice when
empty ; operculum conical at base, rostrate ; peristome normal ;
annnlus double. — Eurhynchium colpophyllum, Sulliv. Icon.
Muse. Suppl. 95, t. 71.
Ha e . California (Bigelow, 1854).
Similar to tbe European II. crassinervium, (lifferhig e~pecially in the
scarious leaves with a shorter blunt point, tbe costa not thick, and the
areolation longer and narrower, the perichætial leaves ecostate, and the
capsule longer and oblong-cylindrical.
74. H. piliferum, Schreb. Plants irregularly and loosely
cespitose ; stems long, flexuous, prostrate, irregularly branching,
suhpinnately ramulose, without radicles : leaves somewhat loose,
erect, open, ovate-oblong, abruptly narrowed into a long narrow
flexuous point, ooncave, tho basilar angles long, decnrrent, pellucid;
the border minutely serrulate all around; perichætial
leaves squarrulose, subeoostate: capsule long-pedicellate, oval-
oblong or cylindrical, arcuate, constricted under the orifice and
very arcu.ate when empty ; operculum large, with a long
incurved beak from a high convex base ; peristome large ; teeth
long ; segments long-subulate ; cilia two or three, slender, nearly
as long as the segments, not appendiculate. —Spicil. El. Lips.
91 ; Hedw. Muse. Frond, iv. 35, t. 14 ; Sulliv. Mosses of U.
States, 105. Eurhynchium piliferum, Bruch & Schimp. Bryol.
Eur. t. 531.
Hab. Meadows, borders of woodsy rare in fruit.
76. H. prælongum, Linn. Much like the last, differing
in its wide flat loose bright or dark green mats, the stems very
slender, jirostrate their whole length, the leaves serrul.ate all
around, the perichætial very narrowly costate, the segments
perforated aud not split open, and the cilia appendiculate.__
Spec. PL 1125; Hedw. 1. c. 76, t. 29. Mhynchostegium præ-
longum, DeNotaris, BrioL Ital. 86. Eurhynchium prmlongum,
Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Enr. t. 524.
Hab. Biitish Columbia (Lyall), as quoted by Mitten, who makes it
the equivalent of II. Stokesli.
A species very difficult to separate from II. Mans, which appears to be
an American variety of it. Tlie true II. prælongum lias scarcely been
found on tliis continent; at least we have seen notliing referable to'it.
76. H. S u lliv an tii, Spruce, Ms. Plants small, densely
cespitose or loosely intricate, pale green, dirty yellow below ;
stems slender, siihfastigiately ramulose, the branchlets erect:
leaves erect, narrowly ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, concave
and recurved on the borders at base, sparsely papillose on the
back, costate to above the middle ; cells minute, flexuous, linear,
obtuse, those of the angles subquadrate; perichætial leaves