494 STEGOCARPI. ACROCARPI. MACROMITRIUM. 
simplicibus inaequalibus luteo - fuscis; folia crispata, ma- 
dore laxe patentia erecta , lanceolato - acuminata , angusta, 
nervo in subulam elongatam flexuosam madore quoque se- 
mel tortam exeurrente, canaliculata, cellulis minute qua- 
dratis punctatis, basi elongatis, parietibus transversalibus 
obsoletis; perich. duplo fere longiora; theca in ped. bre- 
viter exserto oblonga laevis, basi subplicata , fusca, oper- 
culo thecam aequante v. superante tenuissime aciculari, 
calyptra profunde multifida glabra fusca angusta; perist. 
simplicis ext. dentes breves obtusi pallidi. 7. 
Brid. L p. 315. — — Leiotheca gracilis Brid. I. p. 730. — Or- 
thotrich. gracile Hook. Musc. Exot. t. 27. 
Patria. Dusky- Bay Novae Seelandiae : Menzies 
1791. 
2. Folia lanceolata plus minus acuminata. 
a. Robusta. 
«€, Folia erecto - patentia, 
31. M. tomentosum Hsch. (fl. Bras. I. p. 21.); dioi- 
cum; repens, dense pulvinatum tomentosum, ramis erectis 
subsimplicibus, inferne radiculoso -tomentosis, superne fo- 
liosis; folia densa erecta, apice paullo incurva, sicca tor- 
tilia, linearia mucronulata carinata basi ad medium (pa- 
pillis?) denticulata, apicem versus integerrima, inferiora 
fusca, suprema luteo-viridia, nervo subevanido, cellulis 
circularibus minutis seriatis; theca in ped. vix semiunciali 
purpurascente erecta oblongo - cylindrica angusta, 4 sul- 
cala, sicca tortilis, purpurascens, operc. subulato recto 
duplo breviori luteo-albo, calyptra theca dimidia fere bre- 
vior glabra sulcata, lobis 8 ovatis brevibus, inferne fer- 
ruginea superne fusca; perist. simplicis membrana tenera , 
integra reticulata albida subhyalina apice fatiscens. T- 
Patria. Brasilia, in campis Montevidensibus: Sellow. 
Auctor M. longirostri Schw. comparavit, sed mirum 
sane! speciem hancce Novae Hollandiae (Seelandiae!) in- 
digenam ab eo (p. 21.) rectius denotatam in pag. 23. Bra- 
siliae habitantem enumeravit! 
