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HED\^IGIA SCHMIDTII.
Hedwigia c a u l e procumbente ramoso, foliis undique imbricatis
erectis ovato-acuminatis striatis integetiimis
enervibus, capsula globosa, operculo subulato. (Tab.
CLXX.)
Hab. In sylvis umbrosis prope Laguna truncos et ramos arbus-
torum vestiens. Teneriffæ. D . Prof. Schmidt, \8 \5 .
Caules digitales et ultra, procumbentes, flexuosi, vage ramosi,
ramis attenuatis. F'olia undique imbricata intense atro-vindia,
superipra pallidiora, omnia dense imbricata, erecta, ovato-
acumjnata, integerrima, enervia, longitudinaliter striata, mar-
ginibjis reflexis. Perichætialia insigniter convoluta, extenora
minola, late ovata, subacuminata; interiora prælonga, magis
acuminata. Seta lateralis, sesquiunciam longa, flexuosa, rufo-
fusca. Capsula exacte sphærica, erecta, ore contracto, intus
membrana annulari alba. Operculum longirostrum, curvatum.
The annular membrane within the mouth of the capsule of this
moss was noticed by its lamented discoverer Dr.Christian Schmidt,
and it is very obvious in all the specimens which 1 possess. “ Inter
1000 specimina (he further remarks) unicum modo calyptra-
tum et operculatum detegere potui ;” but that calyptra, represented
on the left hand specimen, is in too young a state to allow
of my determining the exact figure of it. In habit this moss
accords very satisfactorily both with Hedwigia Humholdtii and
H . secunda, though it is still nearer perhaps to Leucodon sciuroides.
Fig. 1, E plants, nat. size. Fig. 2, 2, leaves. Fig. 3, perichætium.
Fig. 4, outer leaf of perichætium. Fig. 5, inner ditto.
Fig. 6, operculum. Fig. 7, capsule.—wtag?«.
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