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Rh POGONATUM BREVICAULE, Brid. Tab. 47. humiles, laxe gregariæ, c protliallio confcrvoidoo persistente enascentes.

simplex, 2–3-linearis, basi radiculis copiosis instructus, densissime foliosus.

infima minuta, appressa, late ovata vel obovata, acuminulata; media majora erecto-patentia, amplexantia, lanceolato-acuminata; perichoatialia maxima, e basi oblonga membranacea obsolete costata vaginante subitius producta in acumen longum erectum obtuse serratum costaque lata lamellosa fere impletum, lamellis in sectione transversali capitato-clavæformibus.

dioici: masculi nondum observati.

elongato-cylindracea, in pedicello subunciali erecta, papillosa, collo indistincto; peristomii dentibus 32 lingulatis ad latera hyalinis in medio rufo-aurantiis; columella 4–7-alata; operculo e basi depresso-convexa tumida curvulirostro; calyptræ indumento villoso capsulam pro parte maxima vel to tarn obtegente.

Moist clayey banks, Eastern States and westward.—Common.

TAB. 47.—

1. Plantæ naturali magnitudine.

2. Planta fertilis.

3. Caulis foliosus cum pedicelli parte.