. Manual of the mosses of North America [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. Mninm.] BIIYACE^. 243 toward tbo njiex : leaves sproadln;^ \vhoii mo'st, the oomal open, eivc't, broadly ellijitieal, acuininate or cuspidate by the excur- rent thick costa, sharply dentate on the borders; pericluetial leaves ciisj)idate, the inner narrow, lanceolate: caj)sules ai^'^re- gated (8 or 4), loiis^-pedicelled, inclined or ])endent, oblong-, broad-mouthed, gradually narrowing to the pedicel, pajtilluse and stoniatose toward the base ; lid obtusely conical or obtusely aj»iculate; ainuilus simple, broad. — Kew Journ.
. Manual of the mosses of North America [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. Mninm.] BIIYACE^. 243 toward tbo njiex : leaves sproadln;^ \vhoii mo'st, the oomal open, eivc't, broadly ellijitieal, acuininate or cuspidate by the excur- rent thick costa, sharply dentate on the borders; pericluetial leaves ciisj)idate, the inner narrow, lanceolate: caj)sules ai^'^re- gated (8 or 4), loiis^-pedicelled, inclined or ])endent, oblong-, broad-mouthed, gradually narrowing to the pedicel, pajtilluse and stoniatose toward the base ; lid obtusely conical or obtusely aj»iculate; ainuilus simple, broad. — Kew Journ. IJot. viii. 231 (ls;)0), t. V2, IJ; Sulliv. Icon. Muse. Suppl. .VJ, t. .']0. JIaij, Pai'iiie coast, from California nortliwartl. not rare {Duuijlas, etc.); W. Montiina, X. Idaho, and Spokaii Falls ( Watson). 4. M. medium, Bruch & Schimp. Plants large, broadly ces]»itose: lower leaves distant, ovate, cuspidate, the coinal obovate-lingulate, narrowed to the half-clasping base, cuspidate, shari>ly serrate and narrowly margined all around : capsules solitary or in ])airs, ])endent, oblong; lid highly convex, apicu- late. —Bryol. Eur. t. 308. IIau. Pciid d'Orc'ilic Lake in X. Idaho; Fort Colvillfi and Cascade Mountains, Washington Territory; Wasatch Mountains; also the Eastern slope, in \c\v Jersey, New York, an. M. Drummondii, Bruch &, Schimp. Plants loosely cespitose : leaves open, reflexed, decurrent at base, the lower small, distant, elliptical-obovate, the comal gradually larger, crowded, obovate-lanceolate; outer 'tial leaves oblong, spatulate, the inner very small and lanceolate, all mucronate- apiculate, bordered by a yellowish brown margin, ciliate-dentate above; costa thicl<, nearly continuous; cells of the areolation round-hexagonal, chlorophyllose, those of the base oblong and nearly em])ty: capsules clustered (2 or 3), oval-oblong, nearly l)endent; lid mammifor»"i; segments of the inner ))eristonie orange-colored, broadly lacunose, wit
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