Bryoid Fissidens Moss

Fissidens bryoides Hedw. Sp Muse. 153. 1801
Fissidens synoicus Sull. Musci U. S. 103. 1856. Fissidens inconstans Schimp. Syn. ed. 2. 114. 1876.
Stems 5-25 mm. high; leaves few to many pairs, oblong, rather abruptly short-acuminate in typical forms, in others more obtuse and apiculate, the upper and perichaetial 1.5-2 mm. long, the border strong (especially on the vaginant laminae), typically confluent with the costa at the leaf-apex but often vanishing slightly below it, the vaginant laminae half the length of the leaf; leaf-cells variable in size and shape, mostly irregularly hexagonal, 8-12 /z, sometimes bulging; autoicous; cT buds in the lower leaf-axils; capsule typically erect and symmetric, sometimes inclined, the median exothecial cells mostly oblong with very thick longitudinal walls; spores in winter.
Type i^ocauty: Germany.
Distribution: Mostly on moist soil; Canada and the U. S. east of the Rockies, south to the Gulf; Vancouver I.; on limestone, in Deering Hammock near Miami, Fla.; Puerto Rico {Steere 6052, 6058, 5657); also in Europe.
I1.LUSTRAT10NS : Bryol. Eur. (17:) pi. 101 (as F. exilis); Braithw. Brit. Moss-Fl. 1: pi, 10, E.