tenellus, madore ob folia valde patula crassiusculus; folia
cauliua siccitate crispata, madore slricta, parum curva
ta , e basi oblonga, e cellulis laxioribus elongatis pellucidis
parenchymaticis reticulatà, anguste lanceolato-
acuminata, nervo cxcurrciitc mucronata, minute quadrate
areolata, opaca, margine integerrimo distincle involuto;
perich. longiora basi laxius rcticulata; thcca iu ped. eìon-
gaio lacvi flavido erecta, ungusie cgiindrica v ix obli-
(juiuscula, pallida, late annulata, ore laiiori purpureo,
opere, oblique aciculari; columella parum dilatata; calyptra
pallidissima glabra augustissima.
Patria. America centralis, Costa Rica, reg. montosa,
inter 50ÜÜ — 8000 ped. clevationis, mens. Alartii 1848. legit
A. S. Oe r s t e d .
A ir . microstoma nolis declaratis babituque robu-
stiore altiere longe distat. Habitu ÌF. tortili magis similis,
sed Ibccae forma primo visu distinguitur.
b. Fo l ia s q u a r ro s o - r e f l e x a .
2 2 b. W. p h a s c o id e s C. Aliill.; monoica, IF. sifuarro-
sae próxima, distiucta: foliis angustioribus, perieli, lou-
gioribus, theca brevius peduuculata vix emergente,
operculo orificium arctius adhaerente, sporis minoribus,
flore masculo terminali monophyllo, paraphysibus multo
longioribus. j .
Hymenoslomum phascoides W ils . in Bryol. Europ. Fase. 42.
Suppl. I. c. tab. !
Patria. Iu terra arenaceo-bumosa ct subargillosa
prope Alere comit. Cheshire: W. W i l s o n 1834; ad
margines piscinae exsiccatac prope Hustpierpoint com.
Sussex: A l i t t e n 1847. — Septembri.
N o n s a t i s n o t a e .
1 . Hymen os to imu n p la n i fo l ium Sendtn. (in Regensb.
Denkschrift. 1841. p. 143.); caulis humilis simplex erectus;
folia inferiora breviora, conferta, supcriora recurva, siccitate
crispata, linearia, acuta, nonniinquam mucronata,
integerrima, obsolete canaiiculata, subplana, marginibus
non involuta, obscure viridia, areolatione tenera e cellulis
oblongo-rectangularibus tcxta, nervo excurrente; pericb.
2 —^3 multo longiora, pedunculum aequantia, lincari-
subulata, canaiiculata, basi amplectentc crccta, apicem
versus recurvata; theca iu ped. crecto solitario bilineari
virenti-lutescente pallido in thecam incrassato ovalis vel
ovato-elliptica, curvula, subgibbosa, non raro paullum
inclinata, ore obliquo angustata, olivácea, demum fusca,
opere, conico oblique obtuse elongato dimidia theca longiori,
calyptra thecam basi acquante, f .
Patria. In terra nuda horti ,,zu Alolitsch bei Jauer”
Silcsiac, Aprili: S e n d t n e r .
Pottiacea suspeclissima.
E n to s t l iy iu e n inm Brid. Br. Univ. I. p. 761.
Nomen ab svtoffd-ev intus et vpt¡r membrana e peristomii
indole compositum.
Calyptra cuculiata. Peris t. ext. milliiin; in te r num:
membrana angus ta annularis margine tandem
lacinulata. Tb e c a subinacqualis apopbysata terminalis.
1. E . t r i s t i c h u in Brid. (1. c.) ; dioicum? parvulum
erectum ramosiusculum fastigiato-cespitosum barbuloi-
deum; folia approximata sublristicha patentia, siccitate ad
modum Barbulae in caulcm obliquo incurva, inflma laxa
breviora angustiora, ascendendo mole aucta, superiora
ovato-lanccolata acutiuscula carinato-concava integerrima,
nervo continuo crasso, cellulis subquadratis luride
viridibus punctulatis tenuissimis; perich. similia, intima
breviora, vaginantia; thcca in ped. terminali innovando
laterali brevi semunciali tortili ferrugineo, apice in apo-
pliysin parvulam rotundam nigricantem incrassato erecta
ovata subaequalis fuscidula. f .
Pairia. In Gallia australi circa Dax Aquitaniae :
G r a t e l o u p in Hb. De c a n d o l l e i .
In Hb. B r i d e l i i non observavimus.