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HOOIiERIA laete-virens.
Deep-green Hookeria.
CRYPTOGAMIA Musa.
Gen. Char. Fruit-stalks lateral. Peristome double:
the exterior of 16 teeth ; the interior of a membrane
divided into 16 entire segments. Calyptra
mitriform.
Spec. Char. Leaves ovate., shortly acuminated, margined,
very obscurely serrated at the extremity,
with 2 diverging nerves reaching nearly their
whole length.
Syn. Hookeria Imte-virens. Hook. 8$ Taylor, Muse.
Brit. ed. 1. 89. t. 21.—ed. 2. 149. t. 27. Hook.
8g Grev. in Edin. Journ. of Science, v. 2. 230.
Schweegr. Suppl. 2. 37. 1.163.
S t e m s procumbent, loosely tufted, from 2 to 4 inches
long, reddish brown, compressed, branched irregularly but
in a somewhat pinnated manner. Leaves inserted on 4
sides, but bifarious in their direction, ovate, or approaching
to obovate, slightly concave, their margins thickened, shortly
acuminated at the point, and, under a microscope, slightly
serrated towards the extremity, two-nerved, the nerves
somewhat diverging, and reaching for nearly the whole
length of the broad part of the leaf, often purplish. The
reticulation is large but delicate: the colour a rather
deep and bright green, very different from the pale hue of
H . lucens. Fruitstalks erect, flexuose, waved, smooth, an
inch or more long, curved at the extremity. Capsule oval,
reddish brown, reticulated with cells, drooping. Lid also
cellular, conical and rostrated, straight. Calyptra mitri