Fairly robust, yellowish, autoecious; the main stem 1-2 inches long, prostrate, with spreading or broken leaves, and rooting occasionally, irregularly branched, the branch leaves when dry either suberect or imbricate, and innovations from broken branch-tips club-shaped, julaceous, with few leaves below and numerous leaves above. Paraphyllia absent; stem-leaves 1.5 mm long, branch leaves 1 mm long, all ovate-acuminate with rather long acute points, deeply concave with erect sides, margin flat above and then reflexed, especially in the lower half; nerve wide, disappearing below the point, projecting along the lower surface, and covered on each surface with long lamina cells; cells oval, smooth but tumid, 20 µ long, the outer rendering the margin sinuose-denticulate; mid-cells at the base also oval or rhomboid, 30 µ long, gradually transverse toward the margin where they are about 10 µ across; the cells on the nerve about 25 µ long. Stem-leaves rather longer and more subulate. Inner per. leaves 1 mm long, sheathing, lanceolate-subulate, with fairly long, slender, subdenticulate point; nerve very weak below, but increasing upward and forming the point; cells rhomboid, 50-70 µ long; seta 1/2 inch long, red, smooth; capsule horizontal, elliptical, very irregular, slightly bent; lid convex-mucronate; peristome fairly strong; teeth pale, bordered, closely trabeculate, faintly striate, and upper sections papillose; membrane very high, pellucid, closely punctate; processes as high as the teeth, papillose; cilia slender.
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