Fissidens Moss

Fissidens sublimbatus Grout, Moss Fl. N. Am
1:13. 1936.
Plants smaller than F. limhatus or F. viridulus; leaves distant below, crowded above, oblong-lingulate, obtuse and minutely toothed and apiculate at the apex, 1-1.5 mm. long, the border not reaching the apex, the costa ending a few cells below the apex; dorsal lamina ending some distance from the stem, usually abruptly; border of the vaginant laminae wide and edged below with 1-2 rows of short subquadrate cells; leaf-cells obscure, bulging, the upper about 7 M wide, subquadrate, regular and arranged in perceptible rows, longitudinal and transverse; capstiles small, erect and symmetric or nearly so, the urn about 1 mm. long, obovoid, the operculum short-rostrate, the exothecial cells quadrate with rounded corners, collenchymatous ; spores in winter.
Type locawty: Shaded ledge, Tanque Verde Mts., Pima County, Arizona (£. B. Bartram
Distribution: Arizona {E. B. Bartram 1296, 1554) and New Mexico (Guadalupe County,