dry; operculum convex, mamillate; teeth orange, with a broad
yellow border; segments split their whole lengtli ; cilia three, very
stout, as long as tlie segments ; annulus simple. — Spec. PI.
1124. Ihjlocomium triquetrum, Bruch and Schimp. Bryol.
Eur. t. 491.
IlAii. Pine woods; plains and mountains.
191. H. Flemmingii. Plants pale and robust ; steins simple,
erect, rigid, obtuse ,at the apex : leaves cordate at base, broadly
ovate-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, very flexuous, squarrose,
subfalcate, deeply sulcate, minutely papillose at the apex, glossy,
bicostate at base ; areolation minute aud narrowly subquadrate
at the angles ; liorders minutely and closely serrulate above,
reflexed .and ciliate .at base ; nerves distant, narrow, re.aching
nearly to the middle, ciliate at base : flowers and fruit unknown.
— Hylocomium Flemmingii, Aust. Bull. Torr. Club, v. 24.
Hab. Vancouver Island {Macoun, 1872).
The author says that tliis species is remarkable for tlie obtuse apex of
the leaf and the minute decompound cilia on the margins and nerves at
base. \Ve have seen no specimen of tliis moss, whicli Is probably a variety
of H. umbratum.
192. H. loreum, Linn. Tufts drooping, loose, soft, pale
olive or yellowish green ; stems long, prostrate, nearly simple,
with the few dichotomous branches distantly and iuterruijtedly
pinnate-ramulose ; branchlets long, flexuous, attenuate at the
often radiculose apex; leaves close, thin, broadly ovate and
sulcate at base, narrowly long-lanceolate and acuminate, falcate,
concave, serrulate at the apex, ecost.ate; areolation very narrow
and equal to the base ; leaves of the branchlets ovate, suliulate,
curved ; inner perichætial leaves half-sheathing at base, subulate-
acuminate, ecostate : calyptra twisted, often left attached to tbe
pedicel : capsule subglobose, solid, reddish brown, sulcate when
dry, abruptly horizontal on a strong flexuous pedicel twisted to
the riglit ; lid large, convex, mamillate ; annulus and peristome
as in H. triquetnim. — Spec. PI. 1127. Hylocomium loi-eum,
Brucli & Schimp. Bryol. Eur. t. 490.
H au . Deep woods, Oregon (Hall); Rocky Mountains {Drummond);
British Columbia {Lyall, etc.); Alaska {Bischoff).
Species o f uncertain affinity ; not clearly referable to any o f
the described subyeneru.
193. H. W r ig h tii, Sulliv. Monoecious : jfi/whs loosely
intricate, dark green or variegated with reddish yellow; stems
prostrate, radiculose on the lower side, irregularly divided;
branches long, loosely foliate : leaves two-ranked, complánate,
ov,ate-obloiig, blunt or acute at tho apex, obscurely serrulate
above, the lateral spreading with an oblique base, iiitloxed on
one side ; costa stout, ascending to above the middle ; areolation
rhomboidal-oval, slightly tumid on both sides; alar cells very
numerous, small, tiaansversely oblong, close ; perichætial leaves
few, loose, ei-ect, costate to the middle, narrowed into a slender
serrulate point : capsule small, oblong, erect or slightly cernuous,
thin, narrowed to a short pedicel ; operculum conical, short-
rostrate ; teeth pale-ycllow, distantly articulate ; segments cleft ;
cilia solitary, shorter; annulus none.—Icon. Muso. 209, t. 127.
Omalia Wrightii, Sulliv. Mosses of U. States, 65; Sulliv. &
Lesq. Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. u. 269.
H a b . Roots of trees; San Antonio, Texas (Wright); Santa Fe, New
Mexico (Fendler).
A distinct species, not to be confounded with any other. In its suberect
capsule and oblong seini-costate and complánate leaves it resembles tbe
genus Homalia, to which it was originally referred, and tlie figure is
still retained in the plates as representing sufficiently tlie characters of
that genus.
194. H. p lan um , Brid. Monoecious : plants widely cespitóse,
stems prostrate, very long-creeping, complánate, irregularly
pinnate, bright green : leaves loosely imbricate, broadly
ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, concave below, constricted at
base; borders erect, minutely crenul.ate; costa obsolete; cells
long, narrow, pajiillose, the basilar few, quadrate, granulose, the
alar three, small and vermicular, pellucid ; pericliæti,al leaves
sheathing, bi’oad at base, lanceolate-subulate, erose-denticulate
above, more strongly papillose : capsule small, subcernuous,
oval and horizontally inclined, constricted at the orifice, shortnecked,
on a very long yellow smooth pedicel ; operculum turgid,
conic,al-acuminate, orange; teeth yellow; segments solid,
as long; cilia solitary, white. — Muse. Recent. Suppl. ii. 97 ;
Schwaegr. Suppl. iii., t. 280. Leskea (Omalia) cymbifolia,
Brid. Bryol. Univ. ii. 333.
Hab. Florida, not rare (Austin, J. Donnell Smith).