728 STEGOCARPIL ACROCARPE  MACROMITRIUM. 
folia maxime inordinate horride spiraliter erispula, madore 
erecto - patentia, Jongiuscule lanceolato - acuminata , nervo 
stricte excedente breviter cuspidata, canaliculata, alis: 
valde convexis minute rotundate basi infima ad nervum 
cellulis nonnullis laxis fuscis areolatis, e basi ultra me- 
dium folii limbo angusto pellucido praeditis ; perich. con- 
formia multo latiora; theca in ped. breviusculo majuscule 
urceolato- ovalis macrostoma, sub ore coarctata, laevis, 
sicca evacuata basi plicata, brevicolla firma, operculo co- 
nico aciculari recto, calyptra thecam subaequante glabra 
sordide lutea, apice fusca, multifida, perist. simplici, e 
membrana truncata firma composito. : 
Schw. Suppl. H. lL i. p. 58. t. 170. — | Leiotheca apiculata 
Brid. 1I. p. 734, 796. — Orthotrich, apiculatum Hook. Musc. Exot. 
t. 45. — Macromitr. macrostomum Schw. Suppl., 1i. U, 2. t. 199! — 
M. longirostre Hsch. in Musc. Mexic. a Deppe ct Schiede lectis! 
Patria. Mexico, Xalapa, regione temperata: Hum- 
boldt et Bow plu hi Brasilia, Serra dos Orgaós: Bey- 
rich, Gardner No. 58. Guatemala: Friedrichsthal 
No. 85. 
Notis illustratis facile distinguendum.  Inflorescen- 
uam Schwáügrichen in speciminibus Mexicanis monoi- 
cam, in ramulis propriis gracillimis terminalem, fol. perig. 
parvis ovàtis acutis, observase dicit. In spec. nec Bra- 
siliensibus nostris, a quibus diagnosin duximus, nec Me- 
xicanis a Deppe et Schiede lectis, non vidimus. 
20. M. brevipes C. Müll; dioicum; dense pulvina- 
tum tenellum humile rigidissimum luteo - fuscum longe re- 
pens, ramis brevibus simplicibus v. fastigiatim ramulosis, 
folia inordinate horride spiraliter. contorta, madore ere- 
cto - patentia, oblongo -ligulata obtusiuscula, nervo excur- 
rente breviter mucronata, cellulis hexagone - rotundatis ob 
papillas granulosas opacis, basi magis incrassatis, alis 
convexis hic illic plicatis, basis margine in limbum angu- 
stum incrassatis, viridibus; perich. conformia; theca in 
ped. perbrevi aiea madore recto rigido flav Mis purpu- 
rascente minute listes microstoma laevis pallide fusca 
gymnostoma, operc. breviter aciculari recto, calyptra nuda. 
