HYPNUM PALUDOSUM, Sulliv.
Tab. 101.
Plantæ pinnato-ramulosse, cuespites latos tumesccntcs laxos e viridi lutcscentcs effomantes.
Caulis 3–4-uncialis, subprostratus, bis tcrve divisus, divisionibus elongatis simpliciter pinnatis; ramulis haud confertis breviusculis inæqualibus tenuibus laxius subcompresso-foliosis.
Folia erecto-patentia, e basi concava cordata lanceolata, parce plicato-striata, margine plus minus roflexa, usque ad sumraam fere apicem dentatara valido-costata, utraque pagina lævissima, elongate rhomboideo-areolata; parahylliis ciliato-ramosissimis copiosis: perichætii polyphylli foliis interioribus oblongis sensim longe tenui-acuminatis longitudinaliter pluries striatis.
Flores monoici cauligeni: masculi laxe gemmacei; antheridiis parapbysatis.
Capsula oblongo-cylindracea, incurvo-cernua, annulata; peristomii ciliis in carina parce rimulosis, ciliolis ternatis nodoso-articulatis dentes lineali-lanceolatos aequantibus; operculo brevissimo conico-apiculato.
Hypnum paludosum, Sulliv. Musc. Alleghan. No. 7; Mosses U. States, p. 68; Müll. Synop. Musc. 2, p. 455; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Musc. Bor.-Amer. Exsiec. (ed. 1), No. 281.
Hab. Cranberry marshes, Northern Ohio. Rhode Island, Olney. Massachusetts, Russell. Vermont, Frost.
Resembles H. Blandovii, with which it is not unfrequently confounded: but that species is a Thuidium, Bryol. Europ., and has upright or ascending stems, more densely clothed with longer and more compound paraphyllia: its leaves are more
