. A revision of the North American Isotheciaceae and Brachythecia [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. 188. It is characterized by having a peculiar brownish green color, the tips of branches lighter ; very short turgid branches which are largest in the middle and at the largest part bear leaves as large as the stem leaves; capsule and seta much shorter and teeth more perforate than is typical. E. Transylvaniais Demeter and £ minutipes Kindb. are said by Limpricht, 1. c. to be identical, and only slightly divergent forms of E. dadorrhizans. I have been imable to see specimens of either. 2. Entodon se
. A revision of the North American Isotheciaceae and Brachythecia [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. 188. It is characterized by having a peculiar brownish green color, the tips of branches lighter ; very short turgid branches which are largest in the middle and at the largest part bear leaves as large as the stem leaves; capsule and seta much shorter and teeth more perforate than is typical. E. Transylvaniais Demeter and £ minutipes Kindb. are said by Limpricht, 1. c. to be identical, and only slightly divergent forms of E. dadorrhizans. I have been imable to see specimens of either. 2. Entodon seductrix (Hedw.) C. Muell. Linnaea, ig: 214. 1847. Neckera seductrix Hedw. Sp. Muse. 208. //. ^7. /. 8-1^. 1801. Pterigynandrum Caroliniamim Brid. Muse. Recent. Suppl. i: 132. 1803. Cylindrothecium seductrix SuU. in A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 664. 1856. Gametophyte in wide glossy yellowish-green mats ; stems about 5 cm. long, more or less complanate-foliati. ; branches nearly terete, 5-10 mm. long, often giving off short secondary branches; branch leaves imbricate-appressed, oblong-elliptical to ovate, about by mm., short-apiculate, entire or slightly denticulate above ; costa short and double, median cells linear; quadrate alar cells numerous ; stem leaves ovate, larger, with rather broader cells; monoicous ; male branches abundant, short-stipitate; an- theridia comparatively few, large, oblong; perigonial leaves obo- vate, apiculate, entire, bordered with a row of narrow cells, ecos- tate ; paraphyses large : perichaetium about mm. long, loosely sheathing; the inner leaves oblong-acuminate, serrulate at apex, somewhat plicate with a thin costa extending to the middle. Sporophyte cm. high; capsule reddish brown, cylindric, mm. long, 5-6: i; operculum conic-rostrate ; an- nulus of two to three rows of small cells, obscured by base of teeth i teeth of peristome subulate, short, mm. long, very deeply in- serted, about \ below the mouth of capsule, dark red
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