134 5. TORTULE.X. | Weisia. 
Although W. edentula (Sull.) and JF. Pabstiana have been de- 
scribed as dioicous, yet, in authentie specimens of both, the male 
flower may be observed precisely as in European examples. 
Hampe describes the moss from New Granada as * var. canalicu- 
lata, differt colore croceo, statura minore minus ramosa, foliis 
constanter involuto-canalieulatis, cellulis basilaribus tenuiori- 
bus." — Hampe in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5. iii. 351. 
Sect. 4. Hymenostylium, Brid. ii. 81. 
Musci caulibus seepe elongatis, fastigiatim ramosis. Folia an- 
gusta, siccitate appressa. Habitatio ad rupes udos, etiam in 
terra. 
10. W.sriLLICiDIORUM (Mitt.). Dioica, ceespitosa; eaulis paree radi- 
culosus. Folia dissita, patenti-recurva, lineari-lanceoleta, aeuta, nervo 
percurrente carinata, marginibus recurvis, inferne plus minus anguste re- 
flexis, cellulis basilaribus paucis ovoideis, superioribus rotundis pellucidis 
minute papillosis; perichetialia caulinis similia, interna magis acuta. 
Theca in pedunculo gracili, ovalis, operculo subulato angusto curvato. 
Gymnostomum rupestre, var., Sulliv. in Proceed. Amer. Acad. 1861. 
Hab. Andes Quitenses, in stillicidis calidis ad fl. Pastasa (5000 ped.), 
Spruce, n. 227 ; ad fl. Pastasa loco Agoyan (5000 ped.), Spruce, n. 228. 
Ins. Cuba, in declivibus umbrosis ad rivulos, Wright, n. 8. 
Caulis 2-23 uncias altus. Folia juniora lete viridia, inferiora pallide 
fusca. Pedunculus 5-linearis. 
Habitus W. curvirostris Americe septentrionalis et Europe, foliis autem 
illis W. rupestris similioribus basi haud dilatatis marginibus recurvis, 
cellulis haud obscuris. " 
11. W. tonerrosrris (Kunze, C. Müll. Syn. 1. 562). Dioiea, glauco- 
viridis. Folia caulina crispula, madefacta valde patula, longiuscula, 
angustissime lineari-lanceolata, acuta, integerrima, basi infima e cellulis 
pellucidis teneris parvis irregulariter rectangulari-hexagonis, superne 
minutis subquadratis sordide viridibus haud chlorophyllosis mollibus 
firmis tenuissime papillosis areolata, parum flexuosa, nervo ante apicem 
evanido; perichztialia a basi multo laxius reticulata longe lineari-acumi- 
nata. Theca in pedunculo breviusculo fusco erecta, obovata, fusca, dein 
ovalis, brunnea, exannulata, parva, operculo longe et oblique subulato.— 
C. Müll. Le 
Gymnostomum longirostre, Kunze, in Pappig, Pl. Chil. Coll. iii. n. 250. 
Hab. Chili australis, in Andibus, Peppig. 
A W. zanthocarpa Indiz orientalis simillima certe distat.— C. Müll. Le, 
12. W. cALCAREA (Nees et Hornsch. Bryol. Germ. t. 10, Gymnosto- 
mum). Cespitosa, gracilis. Folia patentia, linearia, obtusiuscule acuta, 
