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SPLACHNUM SCABRISETUM.
Nplachnum foliis lingulatis obtusissimis, nervo ante apicem
evanescente, capsula cylindracea apopbysi vix la-
tiore, seta scabra. ( T a b . XXXII.)
H a b . In umbrosis teraperatis Gonzanamarn inter et Lucarque
(Prov. Jaen de Bracamoros), altitudine 1060 he.xapod.
lo ld t et Bonpland.
Caules caespitosi, vix unciales, subsimplices, inferne dense radiculosi.
Folia laxe imbricata, erecto-patentia, undulata, flaccida,
sordide viridia, lingulata, integerrima, apÌcè obtusissimn,
reticulata, nervo fusco ante apicem evanescente instructa.'
Seta unciam longa, flexuosa, pallide rubra, tuberculosa. Cap-
sula cylindracea, apopbysi vix latior, fusco-viridis^ demum,-
post semina ejiciantur, intense fusca, inagis augusta, et una cum
apopbysi longe cylindracea. Calyptra integra. Operculum
obtuse conicum. Peristomìum intra marginem oris, e denti-
bus constans sedecim per paria approximatis, rubro-fiiscis,
siccitate erectis vel recurvis, madore insigniter involutis fere ut
in Tayloria splachnoide^
S. scalrisetum In the leaves is not to be distinguished from
Weissia splachnoides, and the whole plant bears a great affinity
to Splachnum Froelichianum. In the subject of this piate, the
roughness of the fruitstalk will afford a sufficient mark of discrimination
; and a further character is to be found in the teeth of
the peristome being situated within the mouth of the capsule, and
so remarkably involute when moist, that the plant in this state
might be easily taken for a Gymnostomum.
Fig. 1, plants nat. size. Fig. 2, single plant. Fig. 3, leaf.
Fig. 4, young capsule. Fig. 5, calyptra. Fig. 6, mouth of a
capsule showing the involute teeth. Fig. 7, portion of ditto.
Fig. 8, operculum.—all magn.
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