CRYPHÆEA GLOMERATA, Schimp.
Tab. 67.
Plantæ cryptothecæ, tenellæ, rigidiusculæ, in cæspitibus laxis elasticis viridi-flavescentibus degentes.
Caulis primarius arete repens, ætate defoliatus; secundarii fertiles subunciales, julacei, simplices vel parcissime ramulosi.
Folia sicca conferte imbricata, madida patentissima, ovato-elliptica, subito brevius acuminata, concava, margine recurva, densius areolata; cellulis prominulis, mediis et apicalibus ovalibus vel elongato-ellipticis, angularibus minoribus subquadratis; costa (in icone omissa) ad medium producta: perichaetialia continuo-costata, inferiora minuta ovata, cetera multo majora, media late lanceolata, superiora oblongo-obovata apice rotundata tenui-texta, costa superne incrassata excedente cuspidata.
Flores monoici: feminei saepius versus caulis secundarii apicem glomerati; masculi axillares gemmæformes; perigonialibus 4–5 ovatis; antheridiis 3–5 eparaphysatis.
Capsula ovato-oblonga, leptoderma, brevissime pedicellata, perichætio subsessili axillari immersa; peristomio duplici punctulato albescente, dentibus lineali-lanceolatis indistincte remotiusque articulatis, ciliis filiformibus brevibus; annulo specioso composito; operculo e basi depresso-convexo breviter rostrato; calyptra conica latere fissa basi 2–3-incisa, apice scabra.
Cryphæea glomerata, Schimp. in litt.; Bryol. Europ.; Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 56, t. 5; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Musc. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), No. 230.
Cryphæea filiformis, Sulliv. Musc. Alleghan. No. 81, nec. Hedw.
Daltonia heteromalla, var., Hook. & Wils. in Drumm. Musc. Amer. Coll. 2, No. 99.
Pilotrichium Hetromallum, Var. filiforme, C. Müll. Synop. Musc. 2, p. 168.
Hab. Trees, Southern States.
