466 STEGOCARPI. ACROCARPL  BRACHYSTELEUM. 
e dentibus sedecim brevibus lanceolatis dense tra- 
beculatis integris linea media exaratis per paria 
approximatis incurvis infra orificium oriundis auran- 
tiacis laevibus compositum. —  Infloresc. monoica. 
Orthotrichi sectioni Ulotae ex habitu affine. 
1. G. Daviesii Brid. (l. c. p. 31.); dense pulvinatum 
humile erispulum parce dichotomum, intense viride, in- 
ferne ferrugineum; folia madore erecto- patentia, lineari - 
lanceolata eurvata, profunde carinata, margine erecto v. 
vix revoluto, cellulis maxime incrassate quadratis, basi 
laxioribus; theca in ped. breviusculo stricto minuta sub- 
globosa laevis, operc. conico acuto recto, annulo nullo, 
calyptra laevi pallida. 
Br. Europ. 2—3. p. 3. t. 1. — — Encalypta Davies Sm. Fl. 
Brit, HL. p. 1188. — Grimmia Daviésii Turn. Musc. Hib. p. 24. — 
Griffithia. Daviesii R. Br. Transact. of the Linn. Noc. XII. IH. p. 
375. — Bryum Daviesii Dicks. II. Pl. Crypt. p. 3. t. 7. f. 6. 
Patria. In alpibus Cambro - Britannicis Davies de- 
texit; in rupibus marinis in Anglesea, et in Hibernia ad 
basaltum pr. locum ,,Giant's Causeway” promontorii Fair- 
head, societate Grimmiae maritimae. — : Aestate. 
Flores masculi axillares minuti compressiusculi, fol. 
perig. intimis latiuscule convolutaceo -ovatis reflexo acu- 
minatis, antherid. et paraph. paucis. 
Gen. XIX. IBrachysteleum Rchb. 
Endi. Gen. 49. n, 507; et Hsch. Fl. Bras. Fasc. L p. 19; €t 
Linn. XV, p. 126—9. — Ptychomitrium Br. et Sch. — Notarisi& 
Hmp. — Macromitriun Kze. — Brachypodium Brid. haud P. B. — 
Giyphomitrium Brid. — Racomitrium Brid. — Trichostomum 
Schw. —  Cecalyphum P. B. — Dicranum Sm. — Orthotrichum 
Hook. et Grev. — Grimmia al. —  Encalypta Schw. — Bryum 
antiq. 
Nomen e graecis verbis fpayvc brevis et orjíc colu- 
mella, ob pedunculum brevem Br. crispati, pro caeteris 
congeneribus vage conditum. 
Calyptra Glyphomitrii, thecam omnino vel par- 
tem maximam obtegens mitraeformis longe et pluries 
