Leskea.] 18. HYPNEX. 567 
arcte appressa imbricataque. Habitatio ad arbores, etiam in rupi- 
bus locis umbrosis humidis. 
Sect. l. ANoMocLADUs. Rami subsimplices vel inordinate ramosi. Theca 
inclinata. 
ENEE 1. L. gracillima. 
Sect. 2. EULESKEA. Rami pinnatim ramosi. Theca erecta. 
Folia e basi lata biplicata rotundato-ovata, subserrulata, subito in subulam 
recurvam angustam levem producta.......... 2. L. teretiuscula. 
Folia ovata, subulato-acuminata, integerrima .... 3. L. plumaria. 
Sect. 3. PsEUDOLESKEA. Caulis vel procumbens radicansque vel pinnatim 
ramosus, paraphyllis sparsis vestitus. Theca inequalis, inclinata. 
cool ool! MEME RUE M M IET RUN 4. L. microphylla. 
Sect. 1. Anomocladus. 
l. L. cnAcILLIMA (Tayl. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vii. 192). Monoica; 
caulis procumbens hic illic radicans, ramis brevibus longioribusque immixtis 
pinnatim ramosus. Folia patentia, ovato-acuminata, neryo percurrente, 
marginibus integerrimis, cellulis basi ad margines quadratis oblatisque, 
reliquis ovalibus obscuriusculis, papillis inconspicuis fere levibus, ramea 
conformia; perichztialia erecta, ovata, apice breviacuminata, nervata, 
integerrima. Theca in pedunculo elongato cylindracea, inclinata, sub- 
ineequalis, operculo convexo breviter acuminato, peristomii interni processi- 
bus angustis ciliiformibus, in membrana brevi impositis. 
Hypnum columbicum, C. Müll. in Bot. Zeit. 1856, 459. 
Anomodon angustatus, Hampe, MS. ` 
Hab. Andes Bogotenses, ad cataractam Tequendama (7000 ped.), ad 
arbores, Weir, n. 304. Andes Quitenses, Jameson; in monte Guayrapata 
etiam ad Quito (9000 ped.), Spruce, n. 1438; in montibus Guayrapata et 
Titaicun (9000 ped.), n. 1439, in montibus Chimborazo et Carguairazo 
(11,000 ped.), n. 1440, in monte Guayrapata ad saxa rivuli Vascun (7000 
' ped.), n. 1441, prope Patate ad corticem Pyri mali (7000 ped.), n. 1438, ad 
riv. Cusatagua (8000 ped.), n. 1442. 
Caulis 1-2-uncialis. Rami longiores circiter 4-lineares, in cæspitem 
aggregati. Folia viridia obscura.  Pedunculus $-uncialis. 
Statura coloreque L. polycarpe Europe simillimus. 
Sect. 2. Euleskea. 
2. L. TERETIUSCULA (Mitt.). Monoica; caulis procumbens, ramulis 
zquilongis patentibus plumeformi-pinnatus. Folia patentia, e basi late 
rotundato-ovata, biplicata, marginibus inferne recurvis, superne crenulato- 
subserrulatis, inde subito in subulam recurvam angustam lzvem producta, 
nervo percurrente, cellulis bast ad angulos rotundatis, reliquis ovalibus 
