Swartzia flaemingii var. flaemingii

Swartzia montana (Lam.) Lindb. Musci Scand. 26. 1879
Bryum montanum Lam. Fl. Fr. 1: 48. 1778.
Mnium capillaceum Sw. Nova Acta Soc. Sci. Upsal. 4: 241. 1784.
Swartzia capillacea Hedw. Descr. 2: 72. 1789.
Distichium capillaceum B.S.G. Bryol. Eur. (29-30:) Distich. 4. 1846. Parti, 1913] DITRICHACEAE 59
Plants in dense glossy tufts, 2-8 cm. high; steips slender, matted together with brown tomentum, branching by repeated innovations: leaves 2-3 mm. long, the base erect, sheathing; apex spreading, subulate, slightly serrate, rough with the thick short cell-walls projecting, the basal cells oblong, smooth; perichaetial leaves slightly longer, with a more clasping base. Paroicous or autoicous: antheridia axillary below the perichaetium or in buds below: seta slender, twisted, 0.5-2 cm. long: calyptra cucullate, rostrate: capsule erect, rarely slightly obUque, 1-2 mm. long, ovoid or cylindric, becoming brown when old; annulus of three rows of small cells, falling in fragments with the bordered conic lid ; peristome red, irregular, the teeth unequally bifid, slender, more or less imperfect and broken at the joints, smooth: spores minutely roughened, 16-20 n in diameter, maturing in summer.
Type LOCALiTi-: France.
Distribution: Greenland to Alaska, and southward to Nova Scotia, New York, and the Great Lake region, and in the Rocky Mountains to Arizona; also in the Andes and in Europe.