. Manual of the mosses of North America [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. Coscinodon.] 155 Ml] l()n<j; as tlic capsule; tectli more or less cribrose, reflexcJ when j,.y. — Eiiik'it. Stud. Crypt. -JHl; Bryol. Eur. t. 'J;JO. G'run/nia ci'lbrotid, lledw. Muse. Frond, iii. 73, t. 31. C. cribrosus, Spruce , Muell. Syii. i. 705. IIai!. Alaska {Ilnrrhiffton). '2. 0. Wrightii, Sulliv. Very small, densely tufted, dirty or whitish green: leaves closely imbricate, broadly oval or obovate, concave, spcjon-shaped, erose-denticulato from below the a])ex, rapidly narrowed to a serrate hair-point twi
. Manual of the mosses of North America [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. Coscinodon.] 155 Ml] l()n<j; as tlic capsule; tectli more or less cribrose, reflexcJ when j,.y. — Eiiik'it. Stud. Crypt. -JHl; Bryol. Eur. t. 'J;JO. G'run/nia ci'lbrotid, lledw. Muse. Frond, iii. 73, t. 31. C. cribrosus, Spruce , Muell. Syii. i. 705. IIai!. Alaska {Ilnrrhiffton). '2. 0. Wrightii, Sulliv. Very small, densely tufted, dirty or whitish green: leaves closely imbricate, broadly oval or obovate, concave, spcjon-shaped, erose-denticulato from below the a])ex, rapidly narrowed to a serrate hair-point twice as long as the leaf and formcfl bv the stout excurrent costa; Ijasiiar aret)lation loose, pelhicid, ol)l(jng, that of the up])er part smaller and oblong-oval, chlorophyllose in the middle, ])t'llu('id toward the apex: flowers mona'cious, the male on tei'ininal bi-anchlets: ealyi)tra descending to below the middle of the capsule, pluriplicate: caj)sule innnersed on a very short slightly curved ])edicel, erect, oval-oblong, truncate at base, thin, smooth when dry; lid conical, rostellate; teeth purple, lanceolate, irri'gularly 2-3-cleft at the aj)ex, cribrose at the base; amudus large, falling off in fragments. — ^Mosses of U. States, 38, t. 4, and Icon. ]Musc. i. 71, t. 45; Sulliv. & Lesq. Muse. Bcn'.-Am. Ivxsicc. n. 132. Grimmia Wr i idly acuminate into a some- what long denticulate pellucid iiair-j)oint, jdane ami entii'e on the borders; costa stcnit, vanishing below the slightly erosi'- ex, entire, s))lit merely or perforated here and there on the line of <livi- sion, erect when moist, open when <lry; annulus broad, ])er- sisti'iit. — (h'immia {Coscinodon) Raue!^ Austin, Hull. Torr. Club, vi. 46. liAH. Colorado {Tirnndc(/ee), A fine spocies, separated from the preceding l)y the leaves nearly entire on the borders, the costa vanishing bolow the apex, the iutlorescence, the peristome, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images
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