Zygodon Moss

Zygodon conoideus (Dicks.) Hook. & Tayl. Muse. Brit. 71. 1818
Bryum conoideum Dicks. PI. Crypt. Brit. 4: 9. 1801.
Zygodon Brebissoni Bruch & Schimp, in B. S. G. Bryol. Eur. (4:) Zyg. 8. 1838.
Plants rather small and slender; brood-bodies of a single row of 5-7 cells; leaves appressed and little contorted when dry, scarcely recurved when moist, broadly lanceolate, rather abruptly subulate and ending in a single long, clear cell, the margins plane and entire; costa ending several cells below the apex; leaf-cells reaching 15 /z in diameter but these mixed with smaller ones, less obscure than in most other species with papillose leaves; dioicous; seta about 7 mm. long; capsules pyriform, the neck nearly as long as the urn; peristome double, fugacious, the 16 outer teeth united in pairs, about 0.1 mm. long; segments 8, linear, delicate, shorter than the teeth.
Type locality : Near Inverary, Scotland.
Distribution: On the bark of trees; Nova Scotia (Margaret Brown) ; Newfoundland (Waghorne) ;