. Manual of the mosses of North America [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. Mnium.] BRYACE^E. 241 stem-leaves remote or destroyed by mneeration; comal leaves oblong-lanceohite, those of the branchlets densely iiubrieate, broadly ovate, concavo, acuminate; uiner costa soft, exeurrent; areolation very broad and soft, chloroj)liyllose at the base only, hyaline above: caj)sule horizontal or slightly inclined; colluin twice as long as the sporangium ; lid convex-conical, acute, orange-colored, the capsule being yellowish-brown ; teeth orange at base, subulate and whitish at the ai>ex. — Coroll. 08. li
. Manual of the mosses of North America [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. Mnium.] BRYACE^E. 241 stem-leaves remote or destroyed by mneeration; comal leaves oblong-lanceohite, those of the branchlets densely iiubrieate, broadly ovate, concavo, acuminate; uiner costa soft, exeurrent; areolation very broad and soft, chloroj)liyllose at the base only, hyaline above: caj)sule horizontal or slightly inclined; colluin twice as long as the sporangium ; lid convex-conical, acute, orange-colored, the capsule being yellowish-brown ; teeth orange at base, subulate and whitish at the ai>ex. — Coroll. 08. liryum Zierii, Dicks. PI. Crypt, i., t. 4, fig. 10; Bryol. Eur. t. 341. llAU. Near the Height of Land, Kocky Mountains of British America {Lruininond). 2. Z. demissa, Schimp. Tufts dense, reddish brown, densely matted by a felt of radicles: stem-leaves ovate-lanceo- late, costa vanishing below the apex; comal leaves oblong- lanceolate, long-cuspidate by the exeurrent costa; branch-leaves loosely imbricate: capsule curved down on an arched pedicel, clavate, its coilum and sporangium of ecpial length, yellow, chestnut-colored when old; lid small, mamillate, oblique; teeth lanceolate; segments of the inner membrane twice as long as the teeth, united at the apex and adhering by transverse lacinia;; cilia very short, single or bifid.— Coroll. 09. Jfeesia demissa^ TIoj)pe & riornsch., IJegensb. Flora, ii. 100 (1819). liryum demi'ssu)}}, Ilook. Muse. Exot. t. 99; IJryol. Eur. t. 841. Had. Fissures of rocks, Twin Lakes, Colorado (Downie, liothrock & Wolf, Porter); very rare. |i#l' 87. MNIUM, Linn. (PI. 3.) Plants larger than in Uri/um, gregarious, or more generally loosely and widely cespitosc. Stems produced from basilar innovations or from subterranean stolons, woody, tomentose, rarely divided and sometimes bearing arcuate creei)ing flagelli- form branchlets. Leaves 3-5-ranked, the lower smaller, distant, the n] per much enlarged, crowded and rosulate, broadly ovato or spat
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