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Bartramia caule elongato vage ramoso, foliis patentibus
subulatis flexuosis rigidis serrulatis, seta longa flexuosa,
capsula quadrata sulcata. (Tab . CXXXII.)
Hab. In saxis humectatis umbrosis, ad scaturigines, in acumina
montis altissimi Post-berg dicti, prope pagum Georgii in regione
Auteniqmland, C. B. S. rara. D . Burchell.
Caules laxe cæspitosi, erecti, flexuosi, rigidi, superne ramosi, inferne
præcipue tomento fusco obsÌti. Folia flavescentia, sub-
«iistantia, horizontaliter patentia, subsquarrosa, rigidiuscula
tamen flexuosa, subulata, planiuscula, margine serrulata, nervo
ad apicem attingente instructa. Seta terminalis, pollicaris,
flexuosa. Capsula erecta vel inclinata, quadrata, sulcata, medio
contracta. Operculum planiusculum. Peristomium non
vidi ; sed plantæ habitus omnino Bartramioe.
Among the Bartramice hitherto discovered, it would be difficult
to say to which the present one approaches the n e a r e s t p e r haps
to B . patens of Schwaegrichen ( 5 . squarrosa of Turner) j
but that species has the leaves remarkably straight, and neither
that nor any other which I am acquainted with has a capsule at
all like the one here figured.
^ Fig. 1, plants, nat. size. Fig. 2, portion of the stem and leaves.
Fig. 3, leaves. Fig, 4, capsule.—magn.
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