- cessses, splitting along the middle, alternating, sometimes
with cilia; calyptra small dimidiate; leaves papillose or muriculate. 128.
f. Caps. smooth, mostly pyriform.
Paludella (54). Caps. oval-oblong, slightly curved, cernuous or sub-erect, lid mammillate; peristome as in Bryum, inner without cilia; leaves squarrose. 125.
Timmia (46). Caps. obovate, cernuous; perist. outer 16 teeth, inner, a membrane divided half way into 64 filiform processes; variously united at the summits; leaves sheathing, rigid, lanceolate; barren fl. axillary, gemmiform. Infl. monoicous. 104.
Orthodontium (48). Caps. clavoto-pyriform, inclined; perist. outer 16 teeth indexed when dry; inner deeply divided into 16 narrow carinate processes; leaves very tender, narrow, not sheathing; barren fl. axillary, gemmiform, aggregate. Infl. monoicous. 106.
Leptobryum (49). Caps. and perist. as in Bryum; stems of annual growth without innovations; leaves almost setaceous. Infl. synoicous. 106.
Bryum (50). Caps. pyriform cernuous or inclined; perist. outer 16 teeth, inner a membrane divided half way into 16 carinate segments with or without cilia; stems perennial, with innovations below the terminal flower; barren fl. gemmiform or naked. 106.
