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Rami 13 unciam alti. Folia densa, 3-linearia, angusta, apicibus an- 
gustissimis nitida. 
37. M. PuuxLoNGUM (Mitt.). Rami laxe cespitosi, ramosi, curvati. 
Folia a basi erectiore patentia, siccitate curvata, nervo flavo carinata, 
marginibus apicem versus crenulatis, cellulis basi elongatis papillis grossis 
paucis, superioribus omnibus oblongis in lineas rectas dispositis distinctis ; 
perichztialia longiora, conformia. Theca in pedunculo gracili globoso- 
pyriformis. 
Hab. Ins. Sti. Vincentis, in devexis montis S. Andrew, Guilding ; 
Jamaica, Wilson; S. Christopheri, Breute! ; Dominica, Herb. Hooker. 
Rami 1-3-unciales. Folia 2-linearia, exsiccatione parum torta, parum 
erispata, luteo-viridia fulvescentia, demum fusca. Pedunculus 3-linearis. 
Theca parva. 
38. M. CONTEXTUM (Hampe in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5. iv. 331). Rami 
depresse ezspitosi. Folia a basi erectiore recurva, divergentia, nervo 
carinata, margine cellulis prominulis crenulata, supra foli medium den- 
ticulis serrulata, cellulis superioribus parvis rotundatis, inferioribus pa- 
pilliferis, basilaribus infimis paucis elongatis, uno latere ad nervum non- 
nullis majoribus; perichetialia externa longiora, obtusiuscule acuta, in- 
terna squilonga angustiora acutiora. Theca in pedunculo brevi, ovali- 
elliptica, operculo subulato, peristomio “ simplici, externo dentibus 8, per 
paria conniventibus, demum discretis reflexis brevibus lanceolatis trabe- 
culatis flavescentibus." 
Hab. Nova Granata, Rio Negro in sylvis ad arbores cæspites latos 
formans (1200 metr.), Lindig. 
Caules arcte repentes, tomento radicellarum obtecti. Rami $-unciales. 
Folia lineam longa, viridia, sicca crispato-contorta. Pedunculus 4-li- 
nearis, Theca cinnamomea, post operculi delapsum sub ore paullulum 
constricta. 
39. M. pusium (Schimp.; C. Müll. Syn. i. 723). Rami robusti, 
densifolii, fastigiatim ramulosi. Folia laxe patentia, nervo percurrente 
carinata, margine superne erosa, inferne reflexa, cellulis ubique angustis 
elongatis; “ perichetialia breviora. Theca in pedunculo elongato intense 
purpureo, majuscula, ovalis, nitida, fusca (gymnostoma ?), operculo longe 
subulato recto ; calyptra parum angulata.” 
Hab. Ins. S. Christopheri in montibus ad arborum truncos, Herb. 
Schimper. 
Folia 3-linearia, fulva. 
Of this a few leaves only bave been seen ; and these were from 
C. Müller. 
40. M. TRICHOPHYLLUM (Mitt.). Rami elongati, graciles, flexuosi, ra- 
mosi, procumbentes. Folia laxe inserta, a basi erecta cauli appressa paten- 
tia divergentiaque, siccitate immutata, nervo rufo vix carinata, marginibus 
fere ad basin usque argute serrulatis, cellulis ubique elongatis angustis 
