. Manual of the mosses of North America [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. Vlota.] IGl cious, the male rjjcmmiform. Calyptra yellow, deeply split at base, obtusely jdieate, generally covered with long tlexuous yellowish iiairs. Capsule exserted, narrowed into a long eolluni, twisted to the left when dry. — Wcissia, Ehrh. * Primanj stems creeping: leaves scarcehj crispcUe when dry. 1. U. Drummondii, Brid. Tufts yellowish green : leaves linear-hniceoiate from an ovate base, the eonial longer: male Howers axillary: ealyptra somewhat hairy: capsule exserted on a long pedicel, ovate-clavate or
. Manual of the mosses of North America [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. Vlota.] IGl cious, the male rjjcmmiform. Calyptra yellow, deeply split at base, obtusely jdieate, generally covered with long tlexuous yellowish iiairs. Capsule exserted, narrowed into a long eolluni, twisted to the left when dry. — Wcissia, Ehrh. * Primanj stems creeping: leaves scarcehj crispcUe when dry. 1. U. Drummondii, Brid. Tufts yellowish green : leaves linear-hniceoiate from an ovate base, the eonial longer: male Howers axillary: ealyptra somewhat hairy: capsule exserted on a long pedicel, ovate-clavate or fusiform, obscurely 8-sulcate, light ])rown, distinctly 8-costate to the base when old ; lid coni- cal-acuminate, whitish at the apex, yellow at base; teeth 10, whitish. — Bryol. Univ. i. 299. Orthotricluon Druniiiiondii^ (4rev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. t. 115; Bryol. Eur. t. 210. Weissia J)nfnnno)idii, Lindb. Muse. Scand. 28. IIaij. Canada {Druiinnond). We have boon imable to liiiil tlii«! species in any of the sets of Driim- mond's mosses, though Schiniper mentions it as sent from Canada by Dninunonil. Like the folk)\ving it is distinct from all the other species in its long creeping stems, and from U. LudwljU in its more robust habit, the form of the capsule, etc. 2. U. Ludwigii, ]jrid. Stems somewhat creeping or de- cumbent: leaves linear-lanceolate, ])lane or slightly undulate on tlie borders, o])cn Avhen moist, slightly twisted when dry: cap- sule clav.'ite-])yriform, thin, yellowish brown, abruptly contracted and ])licate at the orifice wlien deoperculate and dry; teeth erect when dry, close, whitish, with irregular fugacious frag- inents of an internal membrane as cilia. — Muse. Bocent. Supj)l. iv. 112; Schimp. Syn. 254. OrtJiotricJunn Liidmcjil., Brid. 1. e. ii. G; Schwaegr. Suppl. i. 2. 24, t. 51; Bryol. Eur. t. 225 ; Sulliv. 3Iosscs of U. States, 34. ^Velssia coarctata., Lindb. 1. c. IIaij. Small trunks and branches of trees; common in mountainous regions. * * Leaves
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