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BARTRAMIA MENZIESII.
-Barlramia caule elongato ramosfo, foliis erectis e basi
lanceolata longe subulatis serrulatis stiictis, setis lon-
giusculis erectis. ( T a b . LXVII.)
B. Menziesii. Turner in Ann. o f Bot. v. 1. p . 525.
t. 1 1 . / . 4.
II.AB. In plaga occidentali Americæ scptentiionalis. T). Menzies,
1792.
Caules 3-4-poIlicares, graciles, erecti, flexnosi, simplices vel sub-
dichotomo-divisi, inferne tomento ferrugineo dense obsiti.
Folia arcte imbricata, erecta, appressa, stricta, flavo-viridia, e
basi lanceolata longe subulata, apicem versus præcipue serrata,
margine inferne recurvo, nervo angusto, distincto. Selce demum
laterales, semiunciam longæ, erectæ. Capsula sphærica.
Ñeque operculum ñeque perislomium vidi.
This very distinct species of Bartramia was named in honour
of its discoverer, by Mr. Turner, in a most excellent paper on the
genus, published in the first volume of the Annals of Botany.
Hitherto it seems but little understood by the continental botanists,
.Schwaegrichen only placing it among his doubtful or little
known species, and observing that “ habitu similis B , gracili,”
{B. CEderi.) From this latter, and indeed every otlier,
this plant may be readily distinguished by its long slender stems,
and appressed leaves which are broad at the base and lanceolate,
and which terminate in a long narrow subulate point.
Fig. 1, plants, nat. size. Fig. 2, leaves.—wwo-«.