HYPNUM CYLINDRICARPUM, C. Müll
Tab. 109.
Plantæ in cæspitibus intricato-implexis demissis extensis e viridi fusco-aureis subnitidis degentes.
Caulis gracilis, repens, divisus, densius pinnato-ramulosus; ramulis tenuibus 3–6-linearibus compresse foliosis.
Folia bifariam laxe incumbentia, plus miims deorsum falcatosecunda, anguste oblongo-lanceolata, longe tenuiter acuminata, concava, apice argute serrata, margine prsesertim inferiore recurva; costa gemella perbrevi vel subnulla; reti lineari, cellulis ad basis angulos amplis subquadratis vesiculosis: perichætialia laxe imbricata, erecta; interiora oblonga, filiformi-attenuata; superne grosse serrata, ecostata.
Flores dioici, paraphysati: plantæ masculæ femineis rnixtæ; perigoniis basi radicantibus.
Capsula cylindraceo-oblonga, æqualis, recta et erecta, quandoque subin aequalis erecto-incurvula; pedicello tenui longiusculo; peristomii lutescentis dentibus lineali-subulatis crebre articulatis hyalino-marginatis, ciliis dentes æquantibus carina rimulosis, membrana basilari angusta, ciliolis rudimentariis vix ullis; operculo conico oblique longius subulirostro; calyptra dimidiata angusta ad operculi basin porrecta.
Hypnum cylindricapum, C. Müll. Synop. Musc. 2, p. 308 (1851); Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 71; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Musc. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), No. 300.
Leskea polyantha, var., Sulliv. Muse. Alleghan. No. 60.
Leskea tenuirostris, Schimp. in litt. (1848); Sulliv. in Gray, Man. Bot. ed. 1, p. 668.
Hab. On decayed logs in woods, New Jersey to Ohio, and southward along the Alleghany Mountains to Georgia.
