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BRYUM BARTRAMIOIDES.
Bnjum caule elongato erecto subsimplice, foliis subulato
setaceis rigidis denticulatis, nervo ad apicem attingente,
seta perichsetio immersa, capsula late ovata
erecta. ( T a b . XVIII.)
H a b . In sinu Dusky Bay dicto, apud Novam Zeelandiam. D .
Menzies, 1791.
Caules solitarii vel bini ex eadem radice, digitales ad spitba-
niaeos, erccci, flexuosi, inferne denudati, simplices vel nunc
innovationibus divisi. Folia bi- tri-linearia, sparsa, undique
imbricata, erecto-patentia, subulato-setacea, rigida, fusco-
viridia vel etiam rufo-fusca, margine denticulata, nervo valido,
fusco ad apicem attingente. Seia vix duas lineas longa, foliis
obtecta, paululum curvata. Capsula late ovata, erecta, fusco-
flavescens. Peristomium duplex: ext. dentibus 16, lanceolato
acuminatis, rubris transversim striatis, intus dcnticuìatis,
marginibus pellucidis, flavescentibus ; int. membrana reticulata,
flava, 16-laciniata, segmentis ciliis duobus interpositis.
Few persons, I apprehend, on first looking at this plant would
suspect the genus to which it belongs; for it is quite an anomaly
among the Brya to have a capsule immersed in the leaves of the
periehaetium. Yet such is the case in the present instance : and
on a closer inspection the rigid toothed leaves have some affinity
with those of the genus Timmia ; though certainly a much closer
one with Bartramia. The fruit is truly terminal, appearing
otherwise only from a prolongation of a shoot immediately below
its point of insertion.
Fig. 1, 1, plants nat. size. Fig. 2, leaf. Fig. 3, point of
ditto. Fig. 4, seta and capsule. Fig. 5, portion of peristome.
—magn.
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