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LESKEA SCIUROIDES.
Leskea caule decumbente, ramis compressis curvatis,
foliis undique insertis patulis ovato-acuminatis serrulatis
substriatis enervibus, seta breviuscula, capsula
oblonga erecta sulcata. (Tab. CLXXV.)
H ab. In Insula Van Diemen. H . R. Brown.
Caules tri-quadriunciales, inferne procumbentes, apicibus la misque
insigniter curvatis, compressis, FoUa undique inserta,
flavo-viridia, nitida, patula, ovato-acuminata, paululum flexuosa,
mollia, submembranacea, margine apicem versus precipue
serrata, enervia sed paululum striata. Seta brevis, vix
unciam longa, erecta. Capsula erecta, oblonga, pallide fusca,
longitudinaliter sulcata. Peristomium imperfeetum. Calyptra
operculumapxe. desunt.
This moss, without having any one particularly striking feature,
is not likely, that I know of, to be confounded with any
other. The fruit is small for the size of the plant, and the capsule
is, like that of Leskea sulcata, strongly furrowed. The teeth
are very much injured, so that it is by habit alone that I guess at
its genus.
Fig. 1, plant, nat, sh e . Fig. 2, portion of a stem with leaves.
Fig. 3, single leaf. Fig. 4, capsule.—mag-?!.
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