ARCHIDIUM OHIOENSE, Schimp.
Tab. 7.
Plantæ perennes, gregariæ vel laxe cæspitosæ, filiformes, sordide virides.
Caulis 3–10-linearis, primo simplex erectus, dein serael bisve innovando-raraosus prostratus, gracilis, flagelliformis.
Folia patentia, lanceolato-subulata, pellucide ample oblongo- areolata, apice serrulata, costa valida continua: perichætialia caulinis majora, lato-lanceolata, longe acuminata, costata.
Flores monoici: masculi gemmiformes cauligeni; perigoni-alibus 3–5 late ovatis acutis; antheridiis 3–6.
Capsula terminalis vel innovatione lateralis, globosa, immersa, sessilis, leptoderma: calyptra minuta, lacero-submitriformis. Sporæ 16–20, maximæ, angulosae, læves.
Archidium Ohioense, Schimp.; Müll. Synop. 2, p. 517; Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 14; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Musc. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), No. 28.
Archidium piiascoides, Sulliv. Musc. Alleglian. No. 213.
Hab. Meadows and waste fields, Ohio and Alabama.
Differs from the European Archidium phascoides mainly in its male flower, which is gemmiform and differently situated.
TAB. 7.—Archidium Ohioense.
1. Plantæ naturali magnitudine.
2. Plantæ fertiles.
3. 4, 5. Folia caulina.
6. Folium caulinum areolatiouem exhibens.
7, 8, 9. Perichætia, capsulas includentia.
10. Folia perichætialia.
11, 12. Capsulæ.
13. Capsula verticaliter secta.
14, 15. Sporæ.
16, 17. Perigonia.
18, 19. Antheridia et perigonialia.
