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acuminata stricta vel curvula vel falcatula mmmitate ra- 

 muli in gemmulam patulam vel fakatulam co?ige$fa y mar- 



gine erecto vel in ferae parum involutaceo superne remote 

 denticulate ? nervis obsoletis, celhdis brecibus demimme 

 linearibits calde hiteo-cklorophylhsis ylabris papillh maxim? 

 tenerrimis pauds singulis oculo armivto vix cisibilibm, alaribus 

 mmutissimis pellucidis vix vesiculaeformibus; perieh.raraeis 

 Iatius- vaginantia longius acuminata recta infima minora 

 squarrosula; theca in ped. perbrevi tenerrimo levi rubro 

 horizon talis ml pmidida minutissime ovalis, operculo mi- 

 nuto conico apiculato; perist. Hypni Borbonici. 



Patria* Comoro -insula Johanna y inter Rhizoyonmm 

 xpi/iifortne var, Comorense ad truncos arborum sylvestrium, 

 800 met supra mare: X M. Hildebrandt 1875. 



Flos masculus in vieinia feminei minutulus. E pu~ 

 sillis, teneritate et colore luteo-vi rente facile distinguen- 

 dum, 



52* Hypnum (Tamariscella) pseudo-involvens 

 n. sp. ; monoieum; minutulum longe repens paraphylliis bre~ 

 vissimis rugulosis truncatis den&iuscule obtectus, ramulis 

 remotissimis tenerrimis paraphylliis fere destitutis; folia 

 caulina crispatula minuta madore remota laxe patula 

 summitate ramuli in gemmulam minutissimam clausam con- 

 gesta, ovalia brevissime acuminata, ante acumen cucullato- 

 concava, nervo tenui pallido in cavitate cucullataevanido, 

 eellulis grossiusculis viridibus obseuris leniter papulosis 

 ad marginem parum prominentibus; perich. erecta multo 

 majora e basi vaginata tenera pallide superne parum fim- 

 briata in acumen pallidissimum asperulum capillare atte- 

 nuata, nervo pallido in subula evanido; theca in ped. lon- 

 giusculo rubro basi dense muriculato apicem versus ver- 

 ruculoso horizontalis parva, e collo constricto ovalis ore 



