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PTEROGONIUM MYURUM.
Pterogonium caule (fructífero) suberecto pinnatim ramoso,
foliis undique imbricatis erectis ovatis valde concavis
enervibus integerrimis, seta elongata, capsula oblonga
erecta, operculo acuminato. (T a b . CXLVIII.)
Hab. In Nepal. Hon. D. Gardner.
Caules steriles, repentes, radicantes, yn/c/I/èri erecti vel decumbentes
pinnatim ramosi, ramis distantibus patentibus subcla-
vatis, Folia undique inserta, erecta, arcte imbricata, pallide
viridia, exacte ovata, valde concava, obtusa cum mucrone minutissimo,
integerrima, enervia vel basi solummodo obsoletissime
binervibus. Seta longa. Capsula oblonga, rufo-fusca,
ore annulato. Operculum, conico-acuminatum. Peristomii
dentes 16, rufi, marginati, transversim striati.
This plant has so much the habit of a Hypnum, or rather perhaps
that of a Leskea, that it was only after an examination of
various capsules that I w'as able to satisfy myself that it had but
a single peristome. The teeth, too, are singularly rigid. Among
th^ Plerogonia I know of none with which it is at all liable to
be confounded.
Fig. 1, fertile, and Fig. 2, sterile plants, nat. sh e . Fig, 3,
portion of a fertile plant. Fig. 4, leaf. Fig. 5, capsule.—.
magn.