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BARTRAMIA TOMENTOSA.
Bartramia caule subpinnatim fasciculatimque ramoso,
foliis ovato-laiieeolatis longe acuminatis serrulatis
striatis nervo attingente, seta longa recta demnm laterali,
capsula horizontali ovato-rotundata sulcata.
(Tab. XIX.)
Mnium tomentosum. Swartz P r o d r . p . F I . h id.
Occ.p. 1837.
Hab. ad latera sylvarum in montibus altissimis Jamaicse. Swartz.
Caules tomento ferrugineo densissime obsi ti, digitales ad palmares,
vage ramosi, ramis hic illic tomentosis, subpinnatim divisis,
saepe fasciculatis, gracilibus. Folia dense imbricata, horizontaliter
patentia, subrecurva, nitida, flavescentia, ovato-lanceo-
lata, longe acumin-ata, serrulata, striata, margine inferne sub-
incrassata, nervo tenui, percursa. Seta, per innovatione.s
caulis, lateralis, unciam longa, erecta, stricta. Capsula magna,
horizontalis, ovato-rotundata, sulcata,fusca. Peristomii dentes
ex/. 16, breviusculi, transversim striati, fusco-rubri : int. membrana
crassiuscula, reticulata, 16-laciniata, laciniis bifidis,
transversim striati.s, non raro segmentis iterum apice fissis,
atque linea media longitudinali notatis.
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We are unwilling to lose the opportunity of figuring this beautiful
plant, which was first made a Mnium and then a Bryum
by the excellent Swartz; and afterwards was considered by Schwaegrichen
as a synonym to Bartramia arcuata, from which the
great length of the footstalk, its erect (never curved) direction,
and the decidedly sulcated capsule will always keep it distinct.
Fig. 1, plant nat. size. Fig. 2, leaf. Fig. 3, capsule. Fig. 4,
teeth of ext, peristome, Fig. 5, teeth of int. ditto.—magn. ITI
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