HYPNOIDEAE. | NECKERA. - 87 
Patria. India orientalis, Bombay: Kegel cómmu- 
nicavit. 
Notis, litteris cursivis expressis, a W. «urea proxi- 
ma differt. 
83. N. repens Schw. (Suppl. III. I. 2. c. perist. de- 
lineato in t. 246.); dioica; longe repens, ramis brevibus 
attenuatis. subjulaceis pinnatus, intertextus plus minus 
compacte cespitosus, pallide viridis v. lutescens sericeus; 
folia caulina dense imbricata, humore erecto- patentia, 
anguste lanceolato - acuminata acuta integerrima, margine 
ubique parum  revoluto, cymbiformi - concava, cellulis 
brevibus anguste linearibus, basi aureis, alaribus qua- 
dratis pellucidis paucis inferne aureis, nervis obsoletis 
brevissimis; perich. vaginantia longius acuminata tene- 
riora; theca in ped. elongato purpureo minute elliptica 
microstoma,  eptodermis pallide fuscidula, exannulata, 
opere. breviter obliquiuscule rostrato rübente; perist. /V. 
longisetaceae , cilia laevia carinata dentes aequantia , ` in 
membrana haud emersa. 
Isothecium repens Spruce in Ann. and. Mag. of Nat. Hist, 1849. 
Muse, Pyren. No. 92, — Leptohymenium repens Hmp. Linn. XX 
p. 83. — | Anomodon repens Aüh: Musc. p. 5589. — Neckera seri- 
cea Kröhl, in Brid. Sp. Musc: H. p. 40. —  Maschalocarpus repens 
Spr. Syst. Veget. IV. L p. 159. — Pterigynandrum repens Brid. 1. 
p. 183. —  Pterogonium repens Schw. Suppl. I. 1. p. 100. t. 27. — 
Bruchia repens Hsch. in Begensb. bot. Zeit. 1825. 2. Beilage p. 10. 
Patria. Ad truncos arborum, praesertim betularum 
et abietum, in tectis lignosis atque stramineis, ad sepi- 
menta etc., rarius in terra, hic illic per regiones monto- 
Sas praesertim alpestres Germaniae, Helvetiae, Galliae et 
Norvegiae; in castaneis Pyrenaeorum; in America sep- 
tentrionali ex Sullivant haud rara. — Ev auctumno 
usque ad Junium. 
Pl mascula floribus turgide gemmaceis creberrimis 
veluti nodosiuscule pinnata. — Hypno polyantho similis 
et a JV. aurea proxima notis illustratis facile distinguitur; 
cave tamen, ne species ob cellulas alares flavidas ad Pte- 
rogonia revoces. 
