MYURELLA CAREYANA, Sulliv.
Tab. 83.
Plantæ pusillæ, tcnellæ, superne glauco-viridcs, inferne sordide albesccntes, radiculis longis cæspitose intricatæ.
Caulis tenuis ascendens, stolonifer, fasciculato-ramosus; ramis ramulisque gracilibus tereti-foliosis siccitate fragilibus.
Folia laxius incumbentia, patenti-incurva, late ovata, tenuiter elongato-acuminata, cochleariformi-concava, toto ambitu spinuloso-dentata, dorso longius papillosa, basi vix vel brevissime costata; reti amœno e cellulis majusculis pellucidis rhomboideo-ellipticis extus unipapillosis composito: perichsetialia laxius texta, vaginantia, lanceolata, longe filiformi-acuniinata, grosse dentata.
Flores dioici: perichaetia conspicua fusco-aurantia: perigonia oblonga, majuscula; folia perichætialibus similia sed minus longo-acuminata; antheridia 5–6 cum paraphysibus numerosis brevioribus.
Capsula erecta, oblongo-ovalis vel elongato-obovata, macrostoma, in pedicellum tenuem debilem 5–7-linearem sensim defluens; peristomio duplici hypnoideo, dentibus pallide luteolis, ciliolis binatis; annulo duplici subpersistente; operculo breviconico; calyptra fugaci.
Myurella Careyana, Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 61, t. 5; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Musc. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), No. 250.
Hab. Mountains, New England, Carey. Pennsylvania, Lesquereux. Negro Mountain, North Carolina, Gray and Sullivant. Brattleborough, Vermont, Frost. Helderberg Mountains, New York, Austin.
The filiformly apiculate leaves of this species, ciliate-dentate
