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POT'TIOIDEAE.  sCHISTIDIUM. 565 
Sphagnum simplicissimum Loureiro Fl. Cochinch. M. p. 839. 
Patria. Cochinchina, in muris et truncis arborum, 
tempore pluvio. 
2. Gymnost. Niloticum Delile (Fl. Aegpt. p. 45. Il- 
lustr. 31.); pusillum simplicissimum; folia 6—8 amplexi- 
caulia acute lanceolata subcarinata lineam longa, suprema 
perichaetialia grandiora rosacea fructum obvelantia, theca 
in ped. recto, thecam aequante, intra folia subimmersa 
subsphaerica depressa margine crassiuscula laevissima 
nuda, operculo depresso-convexo acuto brevissime ro- 
stellato; calyptra parva pyramidalis, a basi ad medium 
fissa. t. 
Brid. I. p. 756. e 
Patria. In fossis prope hydraulicas rotas in Cahiro, 
Gizeh etc. ad canales, et in Aegypto inferiore cespito- 
sum: Delile. 
3. G. foliosum Roehl. (Ann. Wett. Ges. II. p. 129.); 
caulis 3— 4 linearis longior erectus ramosiusculus. Folia 
densissime conferta, caulem prorsus obvelantia, directione 
varia, angusta, oblongo-subulata, obtusa carinata inte- 
gerrima, nervo crasso exarata, suprema viridia, caetera 
squalide brunnea; ped. terminalis erectus, vix foliorum 
apicem superans tortilis dilute brunneus; theca parvula 
ovata, orificio mediocri, concolor. 7. 
Brid. L p. 95. 
Patria. Yn Suecia pr. Amboga cespitibus dense im- 
plexis vivit. 
Species delenda. 
Gymnost. flaccidum Brid. I. p. 96. Specimina ste- 
rilia Hb. auctoris ad Bryum quoddam, forsan eryfhrocar- 
pum pertinent. 
Gen. V. Schistidium Brid. 
Mant. Musc. p. 21, — Br. univ. L p. 113. — Fiedleria Ra- 
benh. in Begensb. bot. Zeit. 1848. et Deut. Crypt. —  Pottia Br. ct 
Sch. — Gymnostomum al. —  Anaectangiun Röhl. 
