592 LES MOUSSES 



crasso elongalo %dtra limh urn plus mmm produdo versus apicem denlihus i~3 denli- 

 culo exaspm-aio apimlaiis; seta gracillmajilif mini ereda -2-3 i/a cent, aha purpurea; 

 theca mclinata korizmilah've cyUndraceo-pyrifonni sqmlina (chagrin^e) intense pur- 

 pureo-nigra a mill, longa, peristoniii externi denlihus fldvesceati-purpureis opacis Ian- 

 ceolato-pugioniformihus elongalo-acuminatis lale trabemlatis, intemi pcJhmdl proces- 

 sihus e menihrana aha orientihts lads acutis fenestratisj ciliis 2-3 interjeclis hast 

 coalitis; opermlo Imvi atro-verrucoso convexo umbonato, annulo lata. — Valde aJjUne 

 ff 5. apiculatori Schw. Suppl. /, a , p. 1 02 , t. 73, sed differt caraderikis plurihas, 

 imp'imis forma foUorum y nervi prolungatione y setarigiday theca viagis lyhndricay 

 canlinm hrevitate, etc. (Duby, loc. cit.) 



Madagascar, sans indicalion de locality (D. Goudot : herb. Delessert). 



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Cetle esp^ce nous est inconnue; elle parait n avoir jamais etc recoltee 

 (iepuis sa d^couvertc. 



Sect. V. Erytiirocarpa Kindb. 



.(BrolWrus» Musci^ p. SScj,) 



10, Rrvim ERVTHROCAitPUM Schwojgr. var. madacassim Ren. el Card., Mtisci va-ol., in Butt. Soc. hot. 

 Belff., XXXIII, 9' part., p. laS [i/ig] ( iSgS). Ren., Prodr.y p. iGi (1897). 



A planta europwa capsula ruhro-hrunnea , mtale nigrescente , et operctdo alUure, 

 snhcnmco, hand convexo diversmn. 



Zone moyenne des forels : entrc Savondronina et Ranomafana (D"^ Besson). . 



DiSTRiBiTiox GEOGRAPHiQUE : Lc type en Europe, en Alg^rie et dans TAmerique seplentnonale 

 et meridionale. 



Sect. VI. Apalodictyon C. Miill. emend. Broth. 



F 



(Brotherus, Miisci, p. 690. ) 



H. Brvih ALPLSti-BMBescb., in Itev. hryol, 1880, p. 99 ; et Ft. hryol. Ueunion, etc., in Ann. St. 

 uat. Bot.y 6' s^r., X, p. 288 [97] (1881). 

 B. KASoPixis C. MuU., apud Wright, in Journ. of Hot., \XVI, p. '^65 (1888), HommWHW. 



Dmcum, dense cespitosum, rufo-viride, snhsericenm. CauUs gracilis erectvs vix 

 1 cent, altusy wtate rufus, innovationibus luteo-viridihus. Folia erecta, apjwessay 

 angnste lanceokta, suhligulata, acuminala, tantnin apice contradulo subiiliter denti- 

 cukta, marginibus plants y casta inJoUis vetnstis rubella mm apice desinente; celhlis 

 parce chhrophyllosis elongate hexagonis teams y inferionhns rectangnlaribm rnbellis; 



