. Manual of the mosses of North America [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. !''1;,» !'l ill: il' |i;. â i<- f- -h 308 BRYACEiE. [Pylaiaia, Had. Decayed trunks, in woods; common. Much like Pi/luiula polyanthu, differing in its bright yellowisli green color, the leaves broader and shorter, imbricate when dry, and the regular capsule more solid. 123. PYLAISIA, Bruch & Schimp. (PI. 4.) Stems creeping, pinnatoly raniulose; branchlets short, erect. Leaves close, spreading or subsecund and falcate, ccostate, con- cave, entire or slightly serrulate, glossy. Flowers mona^cious. Capsule ovate-oblong o
. Manual of the mosses of North America [microform]. Mosses; Mousses. !''1;,» !'l ill: il' |i;. â i<- f- -h 308 BRYACEiE. [Pylaiaia, Had. Decayed trunks, in woods; common. Much like Pi/luiula polyanthu, differing in its bright yellowisli green color, the leaves broader and shorter, imbricate when dry, and the regular capsule more solid. 123. PYLAISIA, Bruch & Schimp. (PI. 4.) Stems creeping, pinnatoly raniulose; branchlets short, erect. Leaves close, spreading or subsecund and falcate, ccostate, con- cave, entire or slightly serrulate, glossy. Flowers mona^cious. Capsule ovate-oblong or subcylindrical, slightly curved when dry. Teeth of the peristome linear-lanceolate, more or less densely articulate, solid, hyaline on the borders; segments attached to a short membrane, longer than the teeth, linear- subulate, cleft along the keel or bipartite; cilia rudimentary or none. Annulus narrow. â J-'i/laiea, Lindb. 1. P. polyantha, Bruch ifc Schimp. Leaves erect, spread- ing, ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate: capsule chestnut-color; cilia very short. â Bryol. P]ur. t. 455. IL/pjitim poli/anf/ios, Schreb. Spicil. Fl. Lips. 97; Muell. Syn. ii. 337. Lec,]<ea polij- antha^ Iledw. Muse. Frond, iv. 4, t. 2. Stereodon pohjantlius, Mitt. Journ. Linn. Soc. viii. 40. IIab. On trees; White Mountains (JamcH); Santa Fe [FendU'")\ Sas- katchewan and Rocky Mountains (Iiourfjcau). Rare. 2. P. heteromalla, Bruch & Schimp. Much like the pre- ceding, differing in its pale yellowish color, the leaves broadly ovate, acuminate, subscarious, erect on the borders, the cells of the areolation very pale, narrow, subconfluent, those of the basilar angles few, very small and slightly granulose, the inner perichajtial leaves enlarged at base, the capsule oval and broade?-, and the operculum shorter. â Lond. Journ. Bot. ii. G()0 (1(S43). ILfpmimpobjanthvA)}^ var. palUdifoUum, Muell. Syn. ii. 8 57. IIAn. Trunks of trees and stones, in various situations; Rocky Moun- tains {Druin
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