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malophylli robustiores, tenuiusculi. Folia caulina subsecunda, conferta, 
breviuscula, profunde concava subcomplicata, margine e basi usque ad 
apicem late revoluto, superne parce dentato, nervo unico dimidiato com- 
plicato, cellulis angustissime linearibus pellucidis v. lutescentibus, alaribus 
multis laxe quadratis pellucidis; perichetialia e basi late vaginante laxis- 
sime reticulata, amcene pellucida, enervia vel obsoletinervia, in acumen 
breve latiusculum acutatum subreflexum attenuata, subintegerrima. Theca 
in pedunculo elongato purpureo erecta, elongate anguste cylindrica, vix 
arcuata, aurantiaca ; peristomii dentes externi breviusculi rufescentes in- 
voluti, interni in membrana altiuscula libera flava laxe reticulata, ciliis 
singulis latis rudimentariis.— C. Müll. l. c. 
Isothecium (Entodon) Andrieuxii, Mont. in litt. 
Hab. Mexico, Andrieuz. 
43. H. srEREOPOMA (Spruce) Rami elongati, procumbentes, ra- 
mulis pluribus pinnatim divisi. Folia caulina imbricata, nervo tenui 
supra medium evanido, marginibus ubique tenuissime serratis, cellulis ad 
angulos paucis quadratis oblongisque, superioribus elongatis angustis hya- 
linis, ramulina ovata subulato-acuminata concava biplicata, nervo carinata, 
marginibus superioribus recurvis evidentius serrulatis; perichetialia e 
basi ovata brevinervata, longe tenuisubulata secunda.  Theca in pe- 
dunculo elongato inclinata, inzequalis, operculo conico obtusiuscule acuto, 
peristomii externi dentibus angustis flavidis, intus superne trabeculatis, 
interni processibus punctulatis, ciliis in unum superne nodulosum con- 
flatis zequilongis, in membrana fere ad dentium medium exserta im- 
positis. 
Hab. Ins. Jamaica, Purdie, Wilds; Venezuela, Caracas, Funck et 
Schlim. Andes Quitenses, Jameson; prope pontem Baños, ad terram in 
declivibus sylvaticis (6500 ped.), Spruce, n. 1382, in montibus Tun- 
guragua (8000 ped.), n. 1388, et Chimborazo (10,000 ped.), n. 1383, ad 
Antombos, secus fl. Patasa (5000 ped.), n. 1384, prope Quito (9000 ped.), 
n. 1385. Andes Peruvianz, prope villam Lamas (2000 ped.), Spruce, 
n. 1386; in lignis prope Tarapoto (2000 ped.), Spruce, n. 1387. 
Rami graciles, 2-3-unciales. Folia pallida viridia, sericea nitentia. Pe- 
dunculus 1-uncialis. 
44. H. PsEUDO-PILIFERUM (Hampe in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5. v. 324). 
Dioieum, czspitosum, prostratum, varie pinnatim ramosum, e basi amorpha 
fuscata superne sericeo-viride; caulis elongatus, basi laxifolius, superne 
fronde lanceolata vel vage comoso-pinnatus, ramis teretibus simplicibus 
vel parce ramulosis dense foliatis attenuatis. Folia dense imbricata, 
erecta accumbentia, plicata, humida parum patula basi utroque latere re- 
plicata pluries longitudinaliter lacunoso-plicata, apice plana superne den- 
ticulato-serrata, nervo flavescente ante acumen evanido, cellulis alaribus 
subquadratis pellucidis, czteris anguste pentagonis in acumine magis 
condensatis, folia tota flavescenti-diaphana ; perichetialia pallidiora, laxe 
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