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THE MOSSES OF THE AZORES. a7 
Hyorwita Hpe. 
14. H. Treleasei Card. sp. nova.—Sta. Maria (Trelease, 
Pl. Az. no. 1383, a). 
Dioica? Dense caespitosa vel pulvinata, inferne fuscescens, superne 
lutescens vel lurido-viridis. Caulis erectus, 5-7 millim. longus, simplex 
furcatusve. Folia conferta, madida erecto-patentia, sicca contorta, 
lineari-lanceolata, late acuminata, costa lutescente excurrente mucronata, 
marginibus planis integerrimis, cellulis minutissimis, obscuris, rotun- 
datis, vel rotundato-quadratis, parietibus crassiusculis, sublaevibus, in- 
ferioribus laxis, teneris, oblongis, hyalinis. Folia perichaetialia erecta, 
e basi subvaginante anguste lineari-reticulata, sensim et longe acuminata, 
costa excurrente cuspidata, in quorum axillis paraphyses tenerrimae 
filiformes reperiuntur. Capsula in pedicello pallide lutescente, 5-7 
millim. longo, oblonga, pallide badia, microstoma, gymnostoma, sicca 
plicatula, operculo longe oblique rostrato. Sporae minute verrucosae, 
0 mm. .012-0 mm. .015.— Pl. 3. —a, entire plant, nat. size, in moist and 
dry state; b, b, b, leaves X 16; ¢, basal areolation of a leaf 130; d, 
point of a leaf >< 130; e, e, perichaetial leaves X 16; f, capsule in dry 
state < 16; g, the same in moist state x 16; h, spores X 260. 
Quite distinct from H. contorta (Kze.) Jaeg., from Madeira, by the 
form of the leaves and the total lack of peristome. 
TricHostomum Hedw. 
15. T. mutapite Bruch mss.; De Not. Syll., p. 192.— San 
Miguel (Brown, Pl. Az. no. 388).— Distrio. : Europe, 
Algeria, Canaries, Madeira, South America, New 
Zealand. 
16. T. rvavovrrens Bruch in Flora, 1829, part mu. p. 404, 
t. 2,f. 7.— San Miguel (Godman ).— Distrib.: South 
and West Europe, Algeria, Florida. 
17. T. mucronatulum Card. sp. nova.—San Miguel 
(Machado ). 
Humile, viride, 5-7 millim. altum. Caulis erectus, simplex. Folia 
irregulariter conferta, madida arcuato-patula, sicca incurvato-crispatula, 
oblongo-lingulata, apice plano obtuso vel subobtuso costa excurrente 
minute et breviter mucronato, marginibus planis subundulatis, supra 
basin plerumque minute denticulatis, deinde integerrimis; cellulis supe- 
rioribus minutis, rotundatis, dense papillosis, unde valde obscuris, infe- 
rioribus pellucidis laevibus, elongate rectangulis, costam et margines 
versus majoribus, laxioribus. Caetera ignota.— Pl. 4.—a, entire plant, 
