METEORIUM PENDULUM, Sulliv.
Tab. 73.
Plantæ filiformes, ramosissiraæ, longissimaæ, pendulaæ, laxe intricataæ, fiavo-virides.
Caulis basi brevius subpinnatim ramosa repcns, debinc in ramos 8–10-unciales distanter brevi-ramulosos tenuissimos flexiles dependentes divisas.
Folia haud conferta, undique erecto-patentia (ilia ramorum baseos majora complanata), lineari-lanceolata, sensim filiformi-attenuata, rectiuscula, firmula, opaca, dorso papillosa, margine serrulato leniter recurva, ad medium usque costata, minute lineari–fusiformi-areolata; areolis ad baseos angulos amplioribus subquadratis: folia perichætii parvula laxa vaginulam longipilam vix tegentia, laxius texta, ceteroquin rameis similia.
Flores dioici? masculi ignoti; feminei prope ramorum et ramulorum basin positi.
Capsula minuta, ovalis, in pedicellum paulo longiorem defluens; peristomii duplicis dilute aurescentis dentibus deltoideo-linealibus remotius nodoso-articulatis plus minus perforatis vel in linea divisuriali disruptis, ciliis paululum brevioribus carinatis e membrana plicata latiuscula ortis, ciliolis omnino nullis; operculo conico oblique brevirostro; calyptra juniore elongato-conica; sporis majusculis.
Metrorium tendulum, Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 81.
Hab. On trees and bushes, Western Louisiana, Teintarier, Riddell.
Infertile specimens of another species of this genus (probably M. nigrescens, D. & M.) have been recently found in Florida.
