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fastigiatus, basi fuscescenteUomentosus,' apice comoso-falca- 

 tuSj nitidus; folia convoliita, e basi vagiuante latiore lanceo- 

 late -subulata, iiudique erecto-patentia, supcriora loiigiora, 

 parum falcata, apice dense sorrnlata, nervo tenui obscuro 

 pereurso; perichaetialia convoluia emersa; seta brevis (semi- 

 uncialis) erecta; Iheca adscendens curvato-cylindrica, evi- 

 deiiter stniraosa, laevis, sub ore coiistricta, operculo elongato- 

 couico - subiilato thecam fere superanle , dentibns 'peristomii 



pai'um comiiveutibus, ferrugiueis, usque ad medium bifidis. 



Hab. in mont. Grampian, William et Victoria ranj^es. 



Obs. Dicrano pungenti simile /theca breviore strumosa 

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15. D, uitdum Hpe. (Campjlopus; foliis epilosis.) • 



Monoicum, laxe caespitosum subhumile, parce ramosum, 

 rufescenti-viride, panim nitens; caulis basi fusco-tomentosus, 

 adscendente-ereetus, undique patente foliosus, sterilis apice 

 comoso-altenuatus; folia laxe imbricata, erecta, superiora co- 



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malia longissima, convoluto-coucaTa, e basi latiore lauceo- 

 lata longissime subulata, superne remote spinuloso-dentata, 

 nervo subevanido obscure striato in subula superne angustis- 



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simo, linea pellucida vittato, cellulis basi deusissimis Hnea- 



ribus lutescente vernicosis, alaribus pachjdermicis subquadrato- 

 angulatis limpido-hyalinis, in patina superiore anguste ellipti- 

 cis discretis, apice densioribus approximatis, ad snbulam an- 



gulato-rotundatis nodulosis, lutesceutia; seta brevis inflexa, 

 theca basi callosa, oblique oblongo-cylindricaj laevis j oper- 

 culo umbouato-conico-rostrato, vix thecam dimidiam supe-; 

 raute, caljptra lutescente basi iiuda, nee dmbriata. 



Hab- ad fl. Tarwin, 



Obs. Dicrano holomitrio C. M. proximum videtur; dif- 

 fert; foliis evanidinerviis (nervo vix conspicuo), superne spinu- 

 loso-dentatis thecaque laevi. * •* » ... 



