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IVEISSIA POMIFORMIS.
Weissia caule cæspitoso elongato subsimplice, foliis 11-
neari-lanceolatis suberectis, perichætialibus subulatis
convolutis, seta paululum exserta, capsula sphærica,
operculo curvirostrato. (Tab. CXXXI.)
Ha b . In rnpibus humidis soli et tempestati expositis, montium
altissimorum ad locum Mountain Station dictum, rivulo
Krombeks vieinum, et alibi in jurisdictione Zivellendam, ter-
rit. C. B. S., hic illic obvia, sed raro cum fructificatione inve-
nienda. D. Burchell.
Caules bipollicares, cæspitosi, erecti, simplices vel ramosi. Folia
flavo-viridia, dense imbricata, suberecta, planiuscula, paululum
flexuosa, siccitate tortuosa, e basi latiore lineari-lanceolata,
acutiuscula, integerrima, sub summa lente marginata, margine
pallido, superne parum incurva, nervo valido ad apicem usque
attingente : substantia compacta, opaca, basi solummodo te-
neriore. Perichcetialia membranacea, longe subulata, circa
setam eonvoluta. Sela perichætio paulo longior, erecta vel
modice curvata. Capsula exacte sphærica, lævis, flavo-fusca :
ore parvo rufesceute. Operculum rostratum, rostro deflexo.
Peristomium e dentibus 16, latiusculis, rufis, integris, transversim
striatis.
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This curious plant, though having so much the habit and
the spherical capsule of a Bartramia, has nevertheless a simple
peristome. Unacquainted however with the calyptra, I place
it with some degree of doubt amongst the IVeissice. In the form
of the capsule it approaches W . Martiana (T a b . CIV. of this
work) and W . nigrita, from both of which in other respects it is
widely different.
Fig. 1, tuft of plants, nat. size. Fig. 2, portion of astern with
its fructification. Fig. 3, leaf. Fig. 4, extremity of ditto. Fig. 5
and Fig. 6, perichætial leaves. Fig. 7, capsules. Fig. 8, operculum.
Fig. 9, teeth of the peristome.—magn.