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HYPNUM STOLONIFERUM.
Hypnum caule repente inferne denudato, ramis erectis
pinnatim ramosis, foliis undique imbricatis erectis
ovato-ellipticis acuminatis serratis, nervo ultra medium
evanescente, seta breviuscula, capsula ovata cernua,
( T a b . LXXIV.)
Hab. In plaga occidentali Americæ occidentalis. D . Menzies,
1787.
Caulis repens, flexuosus, inferne denudatus, superne ramosus,
atque hic illic stolonifer, stolonibus folioso-squainosis, radican-*
tibus, ramis numerosis, brevibus, erectis, simpiicibus vel pinnatim
divisis, attenuatis. Folia lutescente-viridia, nitida,
erecta, appressa, undique imbricata, ovata, vel ovato-elliptica,
attenuata, serrata, terminalia magis attenuata, omnia substriata,
nervo snpra medium evanescente instructa, Pei'ichcs-
tialia squarrosa, tenuiter acuminata, fere enervia, subintegerrima.
Seta vix unciam longa, subcurvata, lævis. Capsula
ovata,cernua, fusca, Peristomium flavum, ut in Hypni genere.
The great resemblance of this plant to Hypnum curvatum and
H . myosuroides will strike even the most casual observer ; while
from the former it will be found to differ in the more acuminated
and far more serrated leaves ; from the latter in the broader and
more elliptical ones ; and from both in the drooping capsule and
much larger size of the whole plant. Like the species just mentioned,
Mr, Menzies also observes of this, that it grows suspended
from the branches and about the roots of trees in the north-west
coast of America.
Fig. 1, plant, nat. size. Fig. 2, leaves. Fig. 3, 3, leaves.
Fig. 4, perichætium, fruitstalk, and capsule, Fig.5, teeth of outer
peristome. Fig, 6, portion of inner peristome,—magn.