HYPNOIDEAE. = HOOKERIA: 193 
Quoad notas illustiatas cum nulla specie alia confun- 
denda. Flos masc. turgide gemmaceus, fol. perig. e basi 
late ovata convolutacea tenerrime reticulatä ligulate acu- 
minata duplicato -serrata enervia, anth. parvis et paraph. 
tenuissimis longioribus. 
13. H. Langsdorfii Hook. (Musc. Exot. t. 121.); 
hermaphrodita ; longe repens, prostrata, inaequaliter com- 
planata et irregulariter ramosa, sordide viridis, dein ru- 
fescens, subnitida, robusta; folia caulina undique la- 
xiuscule inserta, sed disticha directione, ovata subacumi- 
nata et mucrone brevi lineari terminata ,7 membranacea, 
rigidula, dentibus albidis apice veluti marginate eviden- 
ter simpliciter serrata, nervis ultra medium productis 
callósis lutescentibus, cellulis subtilibus linearibus , veluti 
in membranam conflatis, vix conspicuis, pallide viridibus 
pellucidis; perich. e basi late ovata concava enervi lon- 
giuscule anguste acuminata, integerrima; theca in ped. 
longiusculo glabro tenui inclinata minute ovalis, operc. 
conico longiuscule oblique curvato, calyptra pallide fusca 
laevi, superficie archegoniis nonnullis obtecta; perist. d. 
ext. linea media latiuscula exarati, interni aequales lae- 
Nes: F: 
Chaetephora Langsdorfii Brid. H. p. 337. — Schw. Suppl. HM, 
t. 162. 
Patria. Brasilia, pr. Rio Janeiro: de Langsdorff. 
Cum H. incurva, quacum Schwägrichen (sec. 
loc. natale, in Serra d'Estrella designatum) commutavit, 
notis cursive impressis nunquam confundi potest. 
14. H. nitens Hsch. (Fl. Bras. 1. p. 65.); dioica? 
repens, vage ramosa, ramis elongatis complanatis pen- 
naeformibus, interdum breviter ramulosis, luteo- viridis 
nitens; folia caulina patentia, apice subrecurvata, oblon- 
go-acuminata, basi subdimidiata seu pterygoidea, con- 
cava, apice remote et argute serrata, nervis laxis tenuis- 
simis, vix conspicuis, infra medium evanidis, cellulis an- 
gustis parallelogrammmis; perich. teneriora, enervia, la- 
xius reticulata, ovato- acuminata, mem hyalina, 
C, Müller: Synops. musc, frond, 
