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leptoderma ochracea vernicosule splendens, operculo aci- 
eulari rectiusenlo thecae subconcolori, annulo lato, ealy- 
ptra glabra pluries laciniata latere fissa; peristomii dentes 
dense approximati latiusculi, superne plus minus regula- 
riter bifidi aurantiaci veluti tessellati, basi glabri cruribus 
rugulosis. 
Patria. Argentinia subtropica, Rio seco prope Orän, 
1878, e. fr. maturis. 
Species tropiea ob sureulos arcte adhaerentes rigidos 
simplices, folia anguste oblongato-subulata pilosa firma, 
thecam ochraceam vernieosulam cylindraceo-ovalem brevi- 
peduneulatam microstomam, operculum acieulare et peri- 
stomium tessellato-artieuletum aurantiacum facile distin- 
guenda optima, habitu Grimmige ovatae. Folia perichae- 
tialia pilis 1—2 sub summitate oriundis memorabilia. 
116. Grimmia (Eugrimmia) raphidostega u. sp.; mo- 
noiea; ecespites pulvinati latiusculi humiles e brunneo Iu- 
tescentes paulnlo canescentes laxissime cohaerentes; canlis 
semipollicaris vel humilior simplex vel apice breviter di- 
chotomus gracilis flexuosus, madore juniperoideo-foliosus; 
folia caulina ereeto-conferta madefacta patenti-patula, e 
basi longiugcula flavida erecta in acumen parum recurva- 
tum angustata integerrima, pilo plus minus elongato flexu- 
oso hyalino denticulato terminata, ad marginem unum re- 
voluta, nervo ubique profunde canaliculato favido excur- 
rente, cellulis baseos ad marginem quadratis laxiusculis 
ad nervum parallelogrammis longiusculis favidissimis, api- 
cem versus sensim minoribus dolioliformibus latere crenu- 
latis inerassatis, apice minutis angulatis erenulatis rotun- 
datis obscurioribus viridibus; perich. emersa multo majora 
erecta basi multo laxius reticulata; theca in ped. peri- 
