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LEUCODON LAGURUS.
Leucoclon caule erecto tomentoso ramoso, foliis imbricatis
ovatis concavis acuminulatis enervibus, capsula
erecta cylindracea, operculo acuminato. (Tab.
CXXVI.)
Hypnum laguiTim. Menzies M S S .
H ab. In insula Staten Land dicta, prope Cape Horn. D . M enzies,
1787.
Caules cæspitosi, inferne tomento ferrugineo obsiti, ramosi, ra-
mis erectis, cylindraceis. Folia undique imbricata, erecta, flavescentia,
nitida, ovata, valde concava, integerrima, enervia,
apice in acumen breve piliforme desinentia. Perichcetialia
circa caulis basin convoluta, lanceolata, apice subrecurva.
Seta lateralis, 4 ad 6 lineas longa. Capsula erecta, cylindracea,
flavo-fusca. Operra&r» acuminatum, subobliquum. Calyptra
dinridiata, flavescens. Feristomium simplex, dentibus,
e membrana paulo ultra capsulæ marginem exserta, 16, filifor-
mibus, pallide flavescentibus, longitudinaliter striatis, ad basin
usque fissis, segmentis erectis.
Widely differing in shape as the leaves of this species do from
those of Leucodon tomentosus, there yet is a close affinity between
the two plants, and it is the more satisfactory to find how
nearly their peristomes agree together. The present plant is
very beautiful, of a bright shining yellow colour in the leaves,
while the lower parts of the stem are covered with a ferruginous
down.
Fig. 1, 1, 1, plants, nat. size. Fig. 2, single plant. Fig. 3, 3,
leaves. Fig. 4, 4, perichætial leaves. Fig. 5, capsule. Fig. 6,
operculum. Fig. 7, calyptra.—magn.