. Manual of the mosses of North America [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. Br yum.] 227 upper large, open, tuftetl, broadly oblong-acuminato, carlii.'vte- coneave, with borders reflexed ; areolation large, liexagoiial; costa strong, brownish, vanishing below or within tlie very entire apex : vaginule covered with paraphyses; flowers bisex- ual: capsule on a slender more or less elongated tlexuMis pedicel, inclined or subpendent, oblong-pyriforni, slightly incurved, soft; peristome short, as in li. WamentH. — 3Iusc. Hecent. Suppl. iv. 120; Bryol. Eur. t. 332. IlAn. Peninsula of Shumagln, A
. Manual of the mosses of North America [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. Br yum.] 227 upper large, open, tuftetl, broadly oblong-acuminato, carlii.'vte- coneave, with borders reflexed ; areolation large, liexagoiial; costa strong, brownish, vanishing below or within tlie very entire apex : vaginule covered with paraphyses; flowers bisex- ual: capsule on a slender more or less elongated tlexuMis pedicel, inclined or subpendent, oblong-pyriforni, slightly incurved, soft; peristome short, as in li. WamentH. — 3Iusc. Hecent. Suppl. iv. 120; Bryol. Eur. t. 332. IlAn. Peninsula of Shumagln, Alaska {Iluninyton). 9. B. flexiiOSUm, Aust. Plants loosely cespitose; stem dividing by short innovations, erect: leaves pale red, erect, ovate, subconcave, acuminate, i)lane or recurved on the very entire bonlers; costa strong, percurrent or excurrent: flowers dia'cious (?); male flowers terminal, large, discoid: cai>sule on a long slentler flexuous red pedicel, ovate-oblong, jtale, subhori- zontal; lid large, depressed-conical, minutely mamillate; inner j)eristome adhering to the teeth; cilia no;ie. — Coult. Bot. Gaz. iv. 152. Hau. Gravelly ground, Blackwater River, British Cohunbla (Macoun). Apparently nearly related to the last, if not a variety of it; differing only in the inflorescence, which appears to be dioecious. The short reddish stems, and the long flexuous pedicel, which the author hidicates as dis- tinctive characters, are those of B. lacuatre. 10. B. Calophyllum, H. Brown. I'lants gregarious or sulv cespitose: stem-leaves distant, round-ovate, obtuse, the u])per closer, loosely imbricated in loose obtuse gemmules, the lower broadly ovate or oval-oblong, narrowed into a short blunt point, all fleshy, very concave and entire, with the border plane or slightly recurved, not margined; costa vanishing below the apex; pericluetial leaves smaller and narrower, the inner lan- ceolate : male flowers gemmiform at the base of the female: capsule pyriform, short-necked
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