HYPNUM MICROCARPUM, C. Müll
Tab. 110.
Plantæ tenellæ, intricato-cæspitulosæ, nitidæ, colore e viridi aurescente insignes.
Caulis prostratus, substrato arcte adhærens; ramulis brevibus recurvo-vol incurvo-erectis.
Folia conferta, plus minus homomalla, angustc oblongo-lanccolata, tenui-acuminata, profundius concava, margine reflexa, apice obsolete serrulata, ecostata vel striis costaeformibus brevissimis notatis; cellulis retis laxiusculi lineari-fusiformibus, angulorum multo majoribus, superioribus quadratis, inferioribus 3–5 utrinque oblongis inflatis pro more aureis: folia perichgetii radicantis laxa, oblongo-acuminata.
Flores monoici in caule ramulisque, baud vel parcissime paraphysati.
Capsula minuta, aequalis, ovalis vel elongato-ovalis, in pedicello 4–5-lineari erecta, brevicolla, leptoderma, exannulata, sicca sub ore rubello leniter constricta; peristomii flavescentis dentibus e lineari-lanceolato subulatis linea divisuriali flexuosa præeditis densius articulatis intus maxime prominenter lamellosis, ciliis dentibus æquilongis latis integris, ciliolis singulis brevibus; operculo e basi depresso-conica oblique longissime subulirostro; calyptra dimidiata paulo infra operculi basin descendente.
Hypnum microcarpum, C. Müll. Synop. 2, p. 326; Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 71.
Hypnum crassiusculum, Schwægr. ex Hook. & Wils. in Drumm. Musc. Amer. Coll. 2, No. 107.
Leskea adnata, Micks. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 2, p. 314; Brid. Bryol. Univ. 2, p. 289; Sulliv. Muse. Alleghan. No. 65, 66.
Var. anisocarpon; capsula subhorizontali inæquali breviter oblonga vel lenissime obovata incurvula, basi longius sensim an-
