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pedunculo longiusculo tenuissimo flavido exserta erecta minuta 

 elliptica utrinque obtusiuscula in rostrum longiusculum tenue 

 recurvo-obliquum attenuata; calyptra glabra. 



P atria. Paraguay, Yuguaron, ad vias cavas, Julio 1879: 

 B. Balansa, No. 3657. 



Quoad liabitum weisioideum, staturam minutam teneram, 

 folia weisioidea atque thecam recurvirostram facile cognoscenda 

 species. 



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11. Phascum (Schizophascuw) disrwnpens n. sp.; gre- 



garium nanum simplex gemmaceum pottiaceum; folia parva in 

 gemmulam minutam dense congesta pauea, late rotundato- 

 ovata brevissime apiculata cochleariformia concava integerrima 

 margine erecta, nervo tenui flavido ante apiculum obtusiuscu- 

 lum evanido percursa, e cellulis basi majusculis laxis teneris 

 mollibus apicem versus sensim minoribus pellucidis hexagonis 

 reticulata; theca in pedunculo pro plantula longiusculo rubente 

 stricto erecta turgide elliptica oblique longiuscule rostrata hie 

 illic maturitate disrumpendo evacuata; calyptra dimidiate brevis 

 glabra; sporae majusculae fusco-rubrae leves. 



Patria. Australia, Victoria, Moyston: Sullivan 1882. 



Hb. Melbourne. 



Species memorabilis, t quoad habitum Pottiam latifoliam 

 baud male referens, habitu gemmaceo, foliis rotundatis coch- 



leariformibus atque capsula disrumpente sectionem propriam 

 (Schizophascum) sistens. 



12. Phascum (Leptophascwn) leptophyllum n. sp. ; gre- 



garie cespitulosum pusillum subacaule vel altius simplex pallide 

 virens ; folia convolutacea subcrispata madore deplanata parum 

 recurvata veluti rosulam minutam sistentia valde patula remo- 

 tiuscula, e basi valde angustata spathnlato-ovata breviter acu- 

 minata brevissime fusco-mucronata carinato-concava, nervo te- 

 nuissimo ante apicem evanido percursa, margine ubique erecto 

 cellulis prominentibus minute crenulata, e cellulis hexagonis 

 parvis basi majoribus plus minus pellucidis mollibus pro more 

 punctato-chlorophyllosis eleganter reticulata tenant; theca in 

 pedicello tenuissimo brevi immersa majuscula turgescenti-elli- 

 ptica in rostrum distinctum obliquum attenuata fuscata, calyptra 

 parva dimidiate, 



Patria. Promontorium bonae spei, Somerset East, monte 

 Boschberg, cum Ephemero Capensi, Ephemerella Rehmanni 

 et Phasco peraristato vigens: Prof. Mac Owan 1882. 



