. Manual of the mosses of North America [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. 84 DllYACE^E. [ 4. ^'oniparabln to F. oRmnndoidcH, Ilcdw., from which it (liffors in tlio nu)uii'cii)iis iiillorcscoiice, tlic surrulale apex vi tho h'aves, and tlio ininiuc hexai^oiial arcolation. IS. F. ventricOSUS, Lcsq. Plants robust, loosely and widi'ly cesiiitosc, nearly black throughout, dark grccu only at tlu! fop of the recent innovations, generally immersed; stems two long or more, braiu^hing from the l)ase, radiculoso in the axils of the leaves: leaves close, erect-open, cultriform, jili- cate and
. Manual of the mosses of North America [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. 84 DllYACE^E. [ 4. ^'oniparabln to F. oRmnndoidcH, Ilcdw., from which it (liffors in tlio nu)uii'cii)iis iiillorcscoiice, tlic surrulale apex vi tho h'aves, and tlio ininiuc hexai^oiial arcolation. IS. F. ventricOSUS, Lcsq. Plants robust, loosely and widi'ly cesiiitosc, nearly black throughout, dark grccu only at tlu! fop of the recent innovations, generally immersed; stems two long or more, braiu^hing from the l)ase, radiculoso in the axils of the leaves: leaves close, erect-open, cultriform, jili- cate and ventricose to the middle, Ijordered by a thick smooth margin confluent at the apex with tlie thick costa, which is ex- ourrent info a blunt ]>oint or rarely vanishing below it; arcola- tion minute, ovate-fjuadrato or irregularly ]>olygonal: flowers terminal: calyi)tra large, cucullate: capsule very shortly pcdi- cellate, subimmersed, erect, obovate, narrowing and confluent into the pedicel, dark green; lid short, conical, obtuse; teeth large, erect: sjiores large. — Mem. Calif. Acad. i. 7 ; Sulliv. Icon. Muse. Sui)pl. 45, t. ;50. IlAit. Oil subincrs('(l rocks, Mendocino City, California Cnolnnilor). Species coniparal)lc! lo F. riifulu^, IJrudi & Scliimp., from wliicli it dif!Vrs in the more obtuse tliiek-niarginod loaves, etc. * * Floicers dixcious. H— J^lants minute. 9. F. hyalinus, Wils. &, Hook. Gregarious; stems 2 or 3 long, simj)le: leaves 8 or 4 pairs, very soft, oljlong- lanceolate, interruptedly narrowly marginate, ecostate, j)licate to the middle, with a broad margin gradually narrowed to the base; meshes of the arcolation large, hexagonal, hyaline- pellucid : fertile flowers terminal, the male not seen : calyptra 8ubeylin(h-ieal, covering the beak of the lid : ca])Sulo oblong, erect, enlarged at the orifice, short--pedicellate ; teeth reddish, solid, closely articulate. —Journ. Bot. (1841) iii. 89, t. 2; Sulliv. Muse. AUeghan. n. 180, Mosses
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