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rimis nervo excurrente sporangio subturbinato oblongo pendulo operculo 
conico mammillato , calyptrá cucullatá. Web, et Mehr, Taxh, p. 484. 
Meesia stygia, Mause, Rec, V. M. P HI, p. 175, 
Germ. Srygisches Girtermoos Gall, Criblette Srygieni e. 
In paluđibus turfosis profundis Sueciae prope Upsaliam pulcherrimum 
museum detexit Swarzius cum Hypno adunco, Seorpieide etc. in consortio degen- 
tem, inde Wahlenbergius in paludibus sylvaticis Lapponiae Suecicae praesertim 
Umoensis ad Knaftan copiosissime legit; tandem Blandovius in pratis paludosis 
Megapolitanae ditionis prope FVaren'auf der Falkenjüger- Fiese rarius occurren- 
iem et Linhius prope Róversbagen CReichs- Anzeig. Melhlenb, Nat. Gesells,) inve- 
nerunt. Aestate. Julio capsulas perficit, 2L 
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Per. ext, Dentes sedecini ovato - lanceolati, óobtusiusculi, flavescentes, 
ransversim striati, apicibus" inira foramina: peristomii. interni duplo longioris 
subincurvis. zt. Membrana hemisphaerico - concava, reticulata, füsco - lutea, 
sedecies radiata, foraminibus sedecim oblongis circa medium in ambitu seriatis 
dentibus oppositis pertusa, 4uusiur nullus. s 
Operculum e Swarzio convexo - cupulatum, papillatum, 'éapsulà pallidius. 
Calyptra dimidiata, angusta, thecá paulo brevior. 
Flos hermaphroditus. Genitalia mascula, observata Wahlenbergio, foliis 
. elavatis numerosis intermixta; pistilla plura uno rarius duobus fertilibus, 
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