HYPNUM FULVUM, Hook. & Wils.
Tab. 125.
Plantæ molles, late laxissime depresso-cæspitosæ, fulvæ, sericeo-nitentes, ætate brunneo-fuscæ.
Caulis prostratus, stolonifer, 4–5-divisus; divisionibus elongatis parce ramulosis interrupte latins et angustius complanato-foliosis.
Folta laxa, complanata, tenuia, flaccida, ovato-lanceolata, in acumen longiusculum leniter serrulatum attennata, marginibus plana vel recurva, ecostata vel obsolete gemello-costata; reti angustissimo flexuoso-lineari, angnlornm ampliato: perichætialia vaginnlam laxe amplectantia, interiora elongata sensim longe acuminata.
Flores monoici; masculi gemmiformes; antheridiis 8–12; parapliysibns longioribns nnmerosis.
Capsula pro plantæ magnitudine parva, cernna, e collo distincto gibboso-ovalis, plagiostoma, exannnlata; pedicello tenni 1–2-unciali; peristomii aurantii dentibus lanceolato-subulatis crebre articulatis intus lamelligeris, ciliis in carina integris, ciliolis singulis brevioribus; operculo turgido-conico breviter apiculato.
Hypnum fulvum, Hook. & Wils. in Drumm. Musc. Amer. Coll. 2, No. 110; Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 80.
Hab. Louisiana, Drummond. Spliagnous swamps near Augusta, Georgia, Gray.
The smallness of the capsule in proportion to the size of the plant, the absence of an annulus, and the very long and narrow cells composing the leaves, are the principal marks of this species, readily distinguishing it from other Hypna of the section Plagiothecium.
