Species quoad colorcni valde variaos, notis tamen
specificis, praesertim foliis usque ad acumen tantum ca-
vis, margine late revolutis primo momento discernibilis.
166. ST. a p p r e s s a C. Miill. ; N . nigrescenii simillima,
sed caulis crassior amoene nigricanti-lutescens obtusira-
meus, folia e basi (inani maxime laie hastuifí brevissime
lanceolata.
Hypnum appressum H.scli. Fl. Bras. I. p. 90 !
Patria. Brasilia, Minas Geraes, ad terram; M a r t
ins.
Sterilis nota quidem, sed a N . nigrescente foliis
certe distans.
167. N. f u n a l i s C. Miill.; caulis pendulus subtriuii-
cialis V. procumbcns vage ramosus, ramis subsecuiidis
scmiuncialibus simplicibus; folia ovato-acuminala conca-
viuscula, plicato-striata serrulata evanidinervia, siccitate
erecta, haud tortilia, nitida lutescentia, tenuissime areolata.
f .
Vilotr ichum funate AVils. Ann. and Mag. of Nat. Hist. 1847.
XX. p. 378.
Patria. Jamaica, Port Royal: G. M’N a b . Arborea.
N . nlgrescenti proxima declaratur.
168. N. D e p p i i Hsch. (Muse. Mexic. Depp.) ; N . ni-
grescenti similiima, sed (laccidior, ramis magis attenuatis,
folia e basi alis coarctatis angnstlore late lanceolato-
acuminata acutata, us(¡ne ad apicem ae(¡ualiter concava,
haud cochleariformia, murijine haud revoluta, cellulis
ob papillas tenerrimas creberrimas v ix conspicuis veluti
conflatis; paraphyses capillares simplices v. e cellularum
seriebus duabus compositae; pedunculus sabscaber; theca
e collo longiori anguste oblonga; perist. d. ext. angusti
albidi subfragiles, ciliis capillaribus fissilibas brcA ioribus.
Pilotr ichum se r ia tum C. Miill. Linn. XIX. p. 217. — P te r ig y nandrum
se r intum Hscli. in Muse. Mexic. Depp. et Scliiedean.
Patria. Mexico: De p p e et S c h i e d e pr. Xalapam
legerunt.
169. ar. d e n t ic u la ta C. Muli.; dioica; N . Deppii
simillima, sed differt ramis subiruncato-obtusis tenuibus,
minus regulariter ct aequaliter pinnatis, flavo-viridibus,
baud nigrcscentibus, foliis caulinis multo latioribus longissime
et capillariformi - acuminatis, margine papillis
tenuissimis distincte denticulatis, e cellulis distinctioribus
compositis, dentibus peristomii externis longioribus magis
rugulosis, ciliis internis in membrana longiore positis per-
forutis.
Patria. Venezuela, prov. Caracas: Mor i t z.
170. ar. A f r ic a n a C. Miill.; dioica; N . Deppii similiima,
seA rigidissima, folia longius acuminata, margine
inferne revoluto, c.e\\u\\s minutis ; perichaetialia, pedunculus
et paraphyses N . Deppii.
Patria. Prom. b. spei, Olifantshock; Ec k l o n co-
piosissimam, sed ihiperfectam legit.
c. Rami tu r g id i , fol iis appressis.
171. ar. ill e c e ii r a C. Miill.; dioica; caulis secunda-
i rius longissimus valde flexuosus foliosus, ramis curvatis
: densifoliis obtusis teretibus crassis luteo-viridibus, dein
nigricantibus, remotis, simplicibus brevibus v. longioribus
iterum ramulosis pinnatim divisus, humore flaccidus mol-
lis ; folia caulina siccitate et humore appressa, e basi ob
alas constrictas valde undulato-plicatas angustiore latissime
cochleariformi - ovata et usiiiie ad acumen concava
plicata, acumine lato brevi subrctuso, margine valde undulato
erecto ob papillas tenerrimas v ix conspicuas denticulato,
nervo tenui ante apiccm evanido, cellulis angustissime
linearibus asperulis, ubi<¡ue ue(¡ualibus et pcdli-
dis; perich. vaginantia lanceolato - subulata, elongate laxe
pellucide reticulata, obsoletinervia, paraphyses longe exsertas
valde tortuosas cellulosas nodosiusculas includen-
tia; tbeca in ped. breviter exserto flavido subscabro parum
curvato apice in collum incrassato erecta turgi-
diuscule ovalis fuscidula exannulata, opere, conico subulato
obliquo; calyptra dimidiata subpilosa; perist. d. ext.