BRUCHIA FLEXUOSA, Schwægr.
Tab. 13.
Plantæ humiles, densius gregariæ vel sparsæ, viridi-flaves-centes.
Caulis 3–6-linearis, subsimplex, gracilis, flexuosus, basi radiculosus.
Folia inferiora erecto-appressa, lineari-lanceolata; superiora sensim majora, patenti-incurva, e basi lata concava erecta, laxius oblongo-arcolata, in subulam longissimam canaliculatarn densius areolatam apice obscure denticulatam attenuata; costa inferne lata cum apice desinente.
Flores monoici: masculi 2–3-phylli in ramulis brevibus propriis terminales; perigonialibus elongatis; antheridiis 3–5, paraphysibus nullis.
Capsula una cum collo solido magno oblongo-obovata, rostrata, in pedicello plus minus longo flexuoso elata; calyptra mitræformi basi lobata ad tertiam partem capsulæ vel ultra descendente; sporis luteis papillulosis circa diametro 1650 unciæ metientibus.
Phascum flexuosum, Schwægr. Suppl. t. 101.
Bruchia flexuosa, C. Müll.; Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 17; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Musc. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), No. 32.
Bruchia Vogesiaca, var., Hook. & Wils. pro parte, in Drum. Muse. Amer. Coll. 2, No. 15.
Var. nigrescens; caule longiore, capsula subfusiforrai, foliis brevioribus appressis, sporis paullulum majoribus atro-fuscis.
Hab. On moist exposed ground, Florida to New England, and west to Pennsylvania and Ohio. The var., Raccoon Mountains, Alabama, Lesquereux.
