. Manual of the mosses of North America [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. Barbuld] BRYACE^. old, cylinflrical, erect; pedicel long, slender, yellow; lid straight, r"<ldish: tiio iiiiloresconce, })crist()nic, and annulus as in the last species. — Sulliv. & Lesq. Muse. Exsicc. (ed. 2) II. 140. Hau. On stones, in spnngs near San Francisco, California {liolander); Fort Colville ( Watson). 11. B. brevipes, Lesq. Dian-ions: gregarious or suhces- pitose ; stems very short, simple: leaves rosulate, lingulate or olilung, cuneiform, obtuse, revolute on the borders, carinate, coueave in
. Manual of the mosses of North America [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. Barbuld] BRYACE^. old, cylinflrical, erect; pedicel long, slender, yellow; lid straight, r"<ldish: tiio iiiiloresconce, })crist()nic, and annulus as in the last species. — Sulliv. & Lesq. Muse. Exsicc. (ed. 2) II. 140. Hau. On stones, in spnngs near San Francisco, California {liolander); Fort Colville ( Watson). 11. B. brevipes, Lesq. Dian-ions: gregarious or suhces- pitose ; stems very short, simple: leaves rosulate, lingulate or olilung, cuneiform, obtuse, revolute on the borders, carinate, coueave in the nj)per part; costa excurrent into a sliort hair- like smooth j){)int: male plants slender; Houers torminal: caj)- sule long, cylindrical, slender, subincurved; lid long-conical, obtuse; peristome syntrichial; basilar membrane long, cpiad- rately tessellate; teeth long, elosely twisted, blood-red; annulus large, compound. — ]Mem. Calif. Acad. i. I'i. IlAn. Mud walls, Mission Dolores, in mats an inch in ilianjoter or more, and on the Kussian lliver divide, California (Bolaiulcr)', Western Nevada ( Watson). Related in the mode of growth and characters of the leaves to the three preceding species, but ditTering in the long tnltular membrane of the peristome, which is like that of Ji. rAUwscens, a stouter species which has the areolatiou of the leaves smaller and close, and a monoecious intlor- escence. 12. B. muralis, Timm. Monoecious: ])ulvinate or cespi- tose tufts whitish green ; stems ^ to 2 cm. long: lower leaves oblong-lanceolate, the u])per long-lingulate, une(|ual sided at the very i)apillose apex, closely revolute, thus ap])earing mar- ginato ; costa broad, passing beyond the apex into a more or less elongated liair-point; areolation small, indistinct in the u]»per part, loosely rectangular and hyaline in the lower: male llowers gemmiform in separate branchlots ; •a])sule ovate-oblong or subcylindrical, regular, brown; lid long-boaked, slightly curved ; teeth a
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