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the teetli, adlierlng to the middle to a broad punctulate membrane.—
Spec. Muse. 62, t. 10; Bryol. Eur. t. 204.
II AH. British America {Drummond) ; Aiieghany Mountains ( Sullivant) ;
Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania (Porter); New Jersey (liau); California
(Lapham). Not yet found fruiting in America.
60. CALYMPERES, Swartz.
Plants small, sparingly branched. Leaves soft. Calyptra
twisted, persistent, plicate, constricted at base and enclosing the
capsule. Capsule erect and exserted. Peristome none.
1. G. R ich a rd i, Muell. Dioecious : plants loosely cespitóse ;
stems short and slender, nearly simple ; leaves spreading when
moist, oblong, obtuse, very entire, with a strong costa vanishing
at the apex but often enlarged, thick and covered with articulate
filaments at its point ; calyptra yellow, slightly scabrous at the
apex : capsule short-pedicellate, oval ; lid short, straight, conical,
subulate. — Syn. i. 524.
Var. Donnellii. Leaves longer and narrower, flexuous and
erect or open, spreading when dry. — C. Bonnellii, Aust., Coult.
Bot. Gaz. iv. 151. C. Bichardi, Aust. Muse. Appal. Suiipl.
n. 489.
Hab. On trunks. Florida (Garber, Austin, J. Donnell Smith); the
variety from the same locality (J. Donnell Smith).
2. G. disciforme, Muell. Plants subcespitose, rigid,
nearly simple, dirty green : leaves rigid, oj/en, spi-eading when
moist, the lower large, oblong, more or less convolute, mucronate
by the excurrent costa, the upper broadly ovate, acute with a
thick percurrent costa, bearing in the middle a dense cluster of
articulate and fasciculate filaments; upper areolation minute
and minutely papillose, the basilar large, quadrate, hyaline at
the margin : calyptra very scabrous upon the folds and at the
apex: capsule short-pedicellate, oval; lid conical, oblique.—
Linnæa, xxi. 183, and Syn. i. 525.
Hab. Caloosa, Florida (Austin).
3. 0 . (?) c risp um , Aust. Plants short, in compact tufts,
brown inside, yellowish green at the surface : leaves strongly
críspate when dry, strict and suberect when moist, thin at the
narrowed base, narrowly panduriform, lingulate, flat, papillose,
retnse or obtuse at the apex, hyaline-margined and loosely
quadrate-areolate in the lower part, very densely granuloseareolate
and papillose-crenulate in the upper, carinate hy the
yellowish percurrent costa. — Coult. Bot. Gaz. iv. 151. Syr-
rhopodon (?) crispiis, Aust. 1. c. ii. 109.
H a b . Jacksonville, Florida (J. Donnell Smith).
61. SYRRHOPODON, Schwaegr. (PL 2.)
Distinguished from Calymperes by the cucullate dimidiate
calyptra, the peristome undeveloped or compiosed of 16 lanceolate
entire generally horizontal teeth, and the orifice of the capsule
sometimes covered by a thin membrane (epiphragm).
1. S. F lo rid a n u s , Sulliv. Plants robust, in somewhat
loose tufts, glaucous-green above, dirty yellowish below ; stems
simple or fastigiate-ramose, more or less radiculose and tomentose
the whole length : leaves close, erect, ovate-ohlong at the
clasping base, linear-lanceolate above, apiculate, concave-
canaliculate, minutely areolate, opaque, obtusely serrulate from
the middle, bilamellate upward, the lamellæ coarsely and irregularly
serrate ; costa thick, setniterete, papillose, vanishing at or
below the apex : flowers dioecious, becoming lateral by innovations
: calyptra descending to the base of the capsule : capsule
siibelliptical or merely cylindrical, erect, of a thick texture ;
pedicel about 1 c.m. long ; lid with a very long aciculate be.ak ;
peristome simple, of 16 short teeth attached far below the
orifice, connivent to near the middle, distantly articulate, pale
yellow without divisural line. — Mosses of U. States, 31, and
Icon. Muse. 49, t. 31 ; Sulliv. <fc Lesq. Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc.
n. 113. 8. albovayinatus, Hook. & Wils. in Drumm. Muse.
Amor. (Coll. II.), n. 37 ; Sulliv. Muse. Allegh. n. 171 ; not
Schwaegr.
Hab. On decayed logs and stumps; Louisiana, Florida, etc. ; not rare.
2. S. T e x a n u s , Sulliv. Resembles the last in size and
aspect : stem-leaves twisted when dry, erect when moist, long
linear-lingulate from the broader clasping base, blunt at the
apex, canaliculate-concave ; borders pellucid, irregularly ciliate-
dentate by linear cells; basilar areolation large, quadrate,
pellucid, the upper very small, subquadrate, opaque, papillose ;
costa vety stout, percurrent, spinulose on the back : flowers
dioecious (male plant unknown) : calyptra covering nearly the
whole capsule, rugulose from the middle ujjward : capsule