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and empty ; teeth recurved when dry ; cilia broad, reddish, as
long as the teeth, slightly erose on the pellucid borders.—
Muse. Brit. 76, t. 22 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 221 ; Wilson, Eng. Bot.
t. 2831.
Var. p ap illo sum . Leaves more highly papiillose.— 0.
papillosum, Ilampe, Linnæa, xxx. 458.
H a b . On trees in California, and on the western slope of North
America, common. The variety is scarcely wortliy of notice, as the
papillæ vary in prominence, even on the same specimens.
5 7 . MAOROMITRIUM, Brid. (PL 2.)
Calyptra campanulate-plicate, more or less deeply laciniate at
base. Peristome none, or simple, or double; the outer of 16
teeth, lanceolate, free or geminate, granulose, whitish or reddish
brown ; the inner formed of a more or less enlarged membrane,
truncate or split into teeth similar to the outer ones;
annulus none or simple, rarely present.
1. M. S u lliv an tii, Muell. Plaijts acrocarpous, becoming
pleurocarpous by innovations, entangled and loosely cespitose, in
wide deoumhent creeping or pendent tufts, reddish brown and
rigid : leaves crowded, open, erect when moist, closely imbricate
when dry, lanceolate from the narrowed decurront base, gradually
acuminate, deeply excavate in the middle of the base,
carinate, costate to near the apex, slightly recurved on the
borders; areolation nearly round, dense, slightly papillose:
flowers monoecious, the male in axillary or terminal buds ; outer
perigonial leaves ovate, the inner ohov'ate, apiculate, hyaline,
erose-dentate from the middle upwards : calyptra hairy, covering
the whole capsule : capsule oval-cylindrical, plicate at the base
and under the orifice when dry, emergent on a slender pedicel,
about one c.m. long; lid conical, subulate; peristome almost
none, the outer imperfect, the inner a short truncate membrane.
— Bot. Zeit. XX. 361. M. Bregei, Sulliv. Mosses of U. States,
81, and Icon. Muse. 59, t. 37 ; Sulliv. & Lesq. Muse. Bor.-Am.
Exsicc. n. 128.
Hab. On the hark of old pine trees, top of Jonah or Bear Mountain,
Georgia [Lesquereux).
2. M. P itzg e ra ld i. In its dark brown color, its short
yellowish branches sparingly fruiting, and also in the very hairy
calyptra and the absence of a peristome, this species closely
resembles the last. It differs in the larger distinctly ribbed
capsule, the leaves longer and not as deeply concave in the
middle near the base, tlie shorter conical blunt lid, and the
shorter pedicel covered to its middle hy the exserted vaginule
having its orifice fringed by long paraphyses as in Æ lycopodi-
oides, Schwaegr. The plant also appears to be dioecious, as no
male flowers could be found upon the specimens.
Hab. On trees, Florida (C. II. Fitzgerald).
3. M. r h a b d o c a rp um . Mitt. Monoecious ; stem creeping,
inordinately branching, loosely cespitose : leaves críspate when
dry, spreading-open and slightly flexuose when moist, linear-
lanceolate, acute or obtuse and subapiculate, flat on the minutely
crenulate borders, carinate by the percurrent yellowish costa;
basilar cells oblong, the upper round, papillose ; perichætial
leaves erect, lanceolate, narrower and more acute at the apex :
calyptra slightly hairy, straw-color, covering the capsule to the
base : capsule oval, gradually narrowed to the petiole and to the
orifice, distinctly plicate ; lid subulate ; peristome simple, the
teeth short, pale and fragile. — Journ. Linn. Soc. xii. 199;
Austin, Coult. Bot. Gaz. ii. 110.
H ae. St. Augustine, Florida (J. Donnell Smith).
4. M. m u c ro n ifo lium . Hook. & Grev. Monoecious: stems
creeping, with short crowded branches : leaves open-spreading,
linear-lanceolate, rounded in narrowing to a recurved acumen,
carinate by the thick costa, entire, convex, rngulose lengthwise;
upper cells minute, round, obscure, the lower a little elongated
on the borders ; calyptra narrowly conical, covering the capsule
to the base : capsule shortly pedicelled, urceolate, the orifice
naked. — Brewst. Edin. Journ. 1. 116, t. 4; Mitt. Journ. Linn.
Soc. xii. 202.
Hab. Trunks of palms, St. Johns River, Florida (C. H. Fitzgerald).
5 8 . SCHLOTHEIMIA, Brid. (PL 2.)
Differs from Macromitrmm, in the campanulate calyptra, not
plicate, and constricted at base by the involute segments, and
in the teeth of the outer peristome 16, spirally revolute, marked
by a longitudinal black line, generally very rugose, fleshy,
the inner more or less perfect, often rudimentary, from a pale