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vergentia, sicco fere immutata, patentia, apice plus minusve obliqua, 
margine ubique plano, remote serrulato, apice densius et distinctius 
serrato. Bractee perichetii brevissimze, apicem vaginule ovato-co- 
nice haud attingentes, latissime ovate; acuminate, acute, serrate, 
enerves, laxius tect. Seta usque ad l em. alta, brunneo-purpurea, 
recta vel leniter flexuosa, sat crassa, rigida, densissime scabra. Cap- 
sula plus minusve fusca, nunquam horizontalis, sicca sub ore leniter 
constricta. Spori minutissimi. Andrecia minuta, crasse gemmacea, 
bracteis acuminatis, integris, enervibus, antheridiis copiosis, brevibus. 
ellipticis, paraphysibus nullis vel vix ullis, valde inconspicuis. 
. Hypnum (RHYNCHOSTEGIUM) CURVISETUM, Brid. Planta au- 
toica, major, vix rigida, letevirens et distincte nitidula ; caulis humi- 
fusus, radiculosus, plus minusve regulariter pinnatus, ramis brevibus. 
obtusiusculis, patentibus, haud erectis, subsimplicibus, zequali-foliatis : 
folia densiora, sat tenuia, haud rigida, apice recta et zequalia, canali- 
culata, e basi vix angustiore et tenuius texta ovato-lanceolata, acutis- 
sima, nervo multo tenuiore, dorso paullo prominente, ad vel paullo 
supra medium dissoluto, cellulis basilaribus rectangularibus, tenuibus, 
ceteris linearibus, angustis, serpentinis, summis elongato-oblongis, 
omnibus haud incrassatis, utriculo primordiali libero et corrugato: 
bractee perichetii majores, longiores et numerosiores, apicem vagi- 
nulz sat longe superantes ; capsula major, longior, curvata, horizon- 
talis, ellptica, ore minore, a cellulis triplo vel quadruplo majoribus 
rotundis, presertim ad angulos maxime incrassatis, magis pachy- 
derma; annulus latus, duplex, vix persistens; rostrum operculi lon- 
gius, sensim acutius; peristomium pro more minus, dentibus latiori- 
bus; spori luteo-ferruginei. Andrecia copiosiora, in axillis ipsius 
caulis. 
H. curvisetum, Brid. Sp. Muse. ii. p. 111 (1812). 
H. tenellum (haud Dicks.) Schwegr. Suppl. ii. P. i. fasc. 2. p. 161. n.5» 
excl. synon. (1824). 
H. laxopinnatum, Brid. Bryol. Univ. ii. p. 405, ut synon. (1827). 
H. rutabulum, var. i. tenerrimum, Brid. Bryol. Univ. ii. p. 49? 
(1827). 
H. rutabuloides, Brid. Bryol. Univ. ii. p. 488, ut synon. (1827). 
H. Schieicheri, Spreng. (L.) Syst. Veg. 16th ed. iv. pt. i. p. 208. n. 106, 
p. p- (1827); De N. in Mem. Accad. Torin. xxxviii. p. 224. n. 26, excl. 
synon. (1836), et Syll. Musc. Ital. p. 32. n. 44 (1838); F. Mazz. Spee 
Bryol. Rom. 2nd ed. p. 50 (1841). 
var. B. curvisetum, Schwegr. Suppl.i. pt. ii. pp. 239 et 241 (1816); 
Brid. Bryol. Univ. ii. p. 404 (1827); Hüben. Muscol. Germ. p- 618 
(1833); Rab. Deutschl. krypt. Fl. ii. pt. iii. p. 282 (1848). 
H. Teesdalei (haud Sm.), Hüben. Muscol. Germ. p. 618. n. 10 (1833); 
Hamp. in Flora, xx. pt. i. p. 276. n. 71 (1837); Spruc. in Trans. Bot. 
