. Manual of the mosses of North America [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. j i ij. 1 ; 1. 196 BRYACE^. [Pyramidula. 70. PYRAMIDULA, Brid. Calyptra largo, enclosing the capsule, dehiscent by a lateral cleft. Orifice of the caj)8ule naked. Spores very large, smooth. 1. P. tetragona, Brid. Stems short, simple: leaves ovate- oblong, gradually acuminate or cuspidate by the excurrent costa, concave and entire : male buds jit the base of the fertile j)lants : cai)8ule globose, short-pedicellate, with inflated collum; lid convex, obtusely apiculate. — Muse. Recent. Suppl. iv. 20. Phyacomitrium tetrngonum^
. Manual of the mosses of North America [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. j i ij. 1 ; 1. 196 BRYACE^. [Pyramidula. 70. PYRAMIDULA, Brid. Calyptra largo, enclosing the capsule, dehiscent by a lateral cleft. Orifice of the caj)8ule naked. Spores very large, smooth. 1. P. tetragona, Brid. Stems short, simple: leaves ovate- oblong, gradually acuminate or cuspidate by the excurrent costa, concave and entire : male buds jit the base of the fertile j)lants : cai)8ule globose, short-pedicellate, with inflated collum; lid convex, obtusely apiculate. — Muse. Recent. Suppl. iv. 20. Phyacomitrium tetrngonum^ Bruch & Schimp. Bryol. Eur. t. 298; Suliiv. Mosses of U. States, 52. Hab. Sandy soil, San Marcos, Texas ( WrUjhtW sandy plain near the depot at Vincennes, Indiana (Lesquereux)\ plains of Colorado (E. Hall). 71. APHANORHEGMA, Suliiv. (PI. 4.) Plants gregarious or subcespitose, whitish green. Stems short, sparingly dividing by innovations. Flowers monoecious or occasionally synacious. Calyptra narrowly conical, mitri- form, covering the upper part of the capsule by its lobate base. Capsule immersed, very shortly pedicellate, splitting in the mid- dle at maturity, without decoloration at the line of separation. 1. A. serratum, Suliiv. Lower leaves open, flexuous, the upper close, nearly erect, oblong and spatulate-lanceolate, short- acuminate, serrate from the middle upward ; costa percurrent; basilar cells large, rectangular, the marginal often yellowish: capsule globose, minutely papillose at the apex: spores tuber- culate. — Mosses of U. States, 52, t. 4, and Icon. Muse. 95, t. 57. SchisticUum, serratum^ Hook. & Wils. in Drumm. Muse. Am. n. 20; Suliiv. Mem. Amer. Acad. n. s. iii. 60, t. 2, C. Physcomitriiim serratum^ Muell. Syn. ii. 545. Had. Damp clayey ground, river-banks, road-sides in the woods, and in open cultivated ground in the Northern and Middle States; not rare. 72. PHYSOOMITRIUM, Brid. (PI. 4.) Plants simple or sparingly branching at base by innovations.
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