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colored membrane. Capsule exannulate. Lid cupullform,
subulate, thin.
1. S. S ullivantii, Muell. Plants in dense widely expanded
depressed yellowish green tufts ; primary stems creeping,
densely ramose : brandies very short, erect, fasciculate-ramose,
closely joined together by a thick felt of brown radicles: leaves
very close, recurved-spreading, lingulate, short-mucronate by
the excurrent thick costa, ventricose and a little plicate at base ;
surface undulate-wrinkled toward the apex ; cells round-hexagonal,
minute, in transverse rows, the basilar loose, oblong : flowers
monoecious, the male lateral, in open short pedicellate buds:
calyptra covering the whole capsule, scabrous at the apex, 5-6-
lobate at base, the lobes incurved and connivent : capsule
cylindrical-oblong, gradually narrowed up to the orifice, emergent
on a pedicel about a half c.m. long ; teeth 16, linear, with hyaline
articulations ; cilia 16, orange color, punctulate, striolate ; basilar
membrane none or scarcely visible. — Syn. i. 756 ; Sulliv. Mosses
of IJ. States, 35, t. 2, and Icon. Muse. 61, t. 38. S. rugifolia,
Hook. & Wils. in Drumm. Muse. Am. (Col. II.), n. 85.
H/U3. Bark of trees in the Southern States; not rare.
5 9 . ENOALYPTA, Schreb. (PI. 2.)
Plants loosely cespitose. Leaves large, lingulate or spatulate ;
cells of the areolation thick, chlorophyllose, covered in the upper
part of the leaves with large divided papillæ, loose, rectangular,
sometimes reddish brown in the lower part. Flowers monoecious
or dioecious, terminal. Vaginule cylindrical, capped by
a conical membrane. Calyptra very large, cylindrical, campanulate.
Capsule emergent on a solid pedicel, erect, regular,
ribbed or twisted when dry. Peristome none, or simple, or
double, very variable. Spores generally large, verruculose.—
JOeersia, Hedw.; Lindb. Syst.
* Peristome none.
1 E. com m u ta ta , Nees & Hornsch. Stems about one
c.m. long : leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the upper longer-
cuspidate by the excurrent costa, slightly transversely plicate in
the middle ; hasilar cells narrowly oblong, yellowish : male
flowers terminal, on short lateral branches : calyptra long,
descending far below the base of the capsule, reddish brown or
chestnut color when old, irregularly laciniate at the base : capsule
cylindrical-ovate, erect or slightly arched, its orifice halfcovered
by a thin horizontal membrane ; annulus simple, narrow.
— Bryol. Germ. ii. 46, t. 15; Bryol. Eur. t. 198. E. lacera,
DeNot. ; Muell. Syn. i. 514.
Hab. Fissures of rocks in alpine localities; Rocky Mountains (Drummond);
Colorado (Downie, B. HaH); Nevada ( Watson); British America
and Alaska (Macoun, Bothrock), etc.
* * Peristome oy 16 tnoi-e or less perfect teeth or none in the
same species.
2. E . v u lg a ris , Hedw. Leavoes lingulate,apiculate, twisting
when dry; costa reddish, percurrent or vanishing below the
apex ; areolation rectangular at base, very thin toward the
middle, narrower and yellowish on tlie borders : calyptra covering
the whole capsule, yellowish green, thin: capsule thin,
cylindrical-ovate, exactly cylindrical when drjq obscurely or
minutely wrinkled lengthwise, pale yellow, the borders of the
orifice orange; peristome generally none, composed when present
of 16 lineate pale fugacious often truncate teeth. — Spec.
Muse. 60 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 199.
Var. o b tu s a , Schimp. Leaves obtuse. — Syn. 286.
Var. pilifera , Schimp. Stems shorter: leaves narrower;
costa reddish, excurrent into a pale yellow hair.
Var. e lo n g a ta , Schimp. Plants robust and much longer,
in dense tufts : leaves broader.
Hab. Fissures of walls and rocks; alpine regions of New England,
Rocky Mountains, California, Oregon, and Alaska ; rare in America.
3. E. rh a b d o c a rp a , Schwaegr. With the habit of the
last : leaves oblong, lanceolate above, nearly plane or slightly
concave ; costa reddish-yellow, vanishing at the apex or passing
up into a more or less elongated yellowish hair-point : calyptra
descending below the base of the capsule : capsule shorter,
narrowly ovate or cylindrical-oblong, reddish, with longitudinal
brown striæ, deeply and regularly furrowed when dry; teeth
lanceolate, distantly articulate, entire or here and there irregularly
perforated, blood-red, rarely pale or absent ; annulus simple,
narrow. — Suppl. i. 56, t. 16 ; Bryol. Eur. t. 203.
Hab. Alpine and subalpine regions, in fissures of rocks; Colorado
(Downie); Nevada (Watson); British America and Alaska. mm