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Rh WEST VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY the growth of innovations, ii to 2 cm. long, pale, glossy yellow, twisted in two directions, very slender, arcuate when young, becoming erect before capsules mature. Capsule cylindric, ribbed only at the mouth, i£ to 2 mm. long, beak straight or curved, shorter than the capsule, peristome bright red, not deep set, teeth split unequally to middle, striolate at base, pale and granulose above, annulus none, spores small, calyptra cucullate, 2 mm. long, beaked, entire. Maturing in summer. Differs from European specimens of D. longirostre col lected by Seringe ; in the longer, paler, more slender, scarcely arcuate pedicels, longer capsules, peristome not deep set, and teeth split only to the middle, more united than figured in the Bryologia Europaea, Table 88. It may be distinguished from Campylopus Virginicus, also remarkable for its cadu cous leaves, by the longer, more slender subulate point, which is entire or minutely serrate and smooth on the back, by the thick base, with inflexed blades, and by the shape of the basal cells at the angles. Monongalia, on sandstone boulder deep woods, Tibb's Run (Millspaugh, 1596). Campylopus flexuosus, Sull. not Brid. Ь. Millspaughii E. G. B. " Plant slight yellowish green, silky, cespitose ; stems mat ted with rufous tomentum at base, 1 to 3 cm. long, a few denudate, roughened by the fragments of the slightly cadu cous leaves. Leaves secund or erect-spreading, 4 to 5 mm. long, narrowly subulate from a broad base 1 to i| mm. long becoming tubular above with inrolled margins, basal angles not auricled, filled by large hyaline cells to the base of the broad, brown vein, those of the blade oblong or square next the vein becoming spindle-shaped and prosenchymatous toward the margin, vein thick, excurrent into a den tate slender tip, rough on back. Dicecious, perichaetium 5 to 7 mm. long, bracts sheathing half their length, taper ing to a long, slender, obscurely serrate tip, outer shorter, abruptly subulate, more sharply serrate ; pedicels recurved, burying the capsules among the leaves, becoming erect when old, 5 to 8 mm. long, stout and twisted in two directions ; capsules pyriform-'cylindric with a distinct neck, length about i mm. without the lid. which is as long as the rest of the capsule, with a straight beak, calyptra cucullate, entire : peristome red, connivent,. teeth deep set, slender, split to middle, or perforate to base, striolate below, granulose above: annulus none, mouth bordered by a dense, dark rim. Maturing in summer, old capsules persistent, not sulcate. Differs from European specimens of D. longirostre in the structure of the base of the leaf, lacking the suddenly in