SYRRIIOPODON FLORIDANUS, Sulliv.
Tab. 31.
Plantæ robustiusculæ, laxius cæspitantes; cæspitibus superne glanco-viridibus inferne sordide flavescentibus vel brunnescentibus.
Caulis uncialis et ultra, simplex vel fastigiato-ramosus, alte parciusque radiculari-tomentosus.
Folia conferta, e basi lanceolata hyalino-oblongo-arcolata amplexante lineari-oblonga, acutata, canaliculato-concava, minutissime prominule guttulato-areolata, opaca; margine baseos superioris obtuse serrulato dehinc fere ad apicem bilamellato, lamellis angustis grossius repaudo-serratis; costa valida tereti papillosa cum vel sub apice dissoluta.
Flores dioici: masculi gemmacei terminales, dein innovatione laterales; antberidiis numerosis paraphysibus longioribus tenuissimis.
Capsula elliptico-cylindracea, erecta, brevius pedicellata, pachyderma; peristomii dentibus sedecies brevibus profunde infra capsulæ orificium insertis conniventibus teneris pallide luteolis remotius articulatis, absque linea divisuriali; operculo longissime aciculari-rostrato; calyptra cuculliformi ad capsulæ basin porrecta.
Syrrhopodon Floridanus, Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 31, t. 2; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Musc. Bor.-Amer. Exsice. (ed. 1), No. 113.
Syrrhopodon Albovaginatus, Schwægr. ex Hook. & Wils. in Drunim Musc. Amer. Coll. 2, No. 37; Sulliv. Musc. Alleghan. No. 171.
Hab. On much decayed logs and stumps, Louisiana, Drummond. Florida, Chapman.
We have seen no authentic specimens of Schwægrichen's Syrrhopodon albovaginatus from the East Indies; but his description and figure of it (Suppl. t. 113) are quite inapplicable to
