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uous white hairs, ovate and quite concave in the middle with a 
plane border of small square cells in straight rows, and the mar- 
gins double or recurved, bluntly papillose, frequently brown 
in the upper half with elongated cells in the centre of the base, and 
others sinuous; apex serrulate or erose when long and hyaline; 
perichetium short, 3 mm., enclosing very long paraphyses, bracts 
strongly plicate, cells long and clear, apex not hyaline; pedicels 
I cm. long, capsules about 3 mm. with small orange-colored 
mouth and apiculate lid. 
Mandon’s specimens at Kew in Herb. Schimper are somewhat 
larger and lighter colored than Dr. Rusby’s, but agree in all es- 
sential characters, especially no, 1641 of the Exsiccatae in Herb. 
Hooker. Sent to Dr. Miiller as //. cirrhifolia (Wils.) Mitt. (J. L. 
Soc. xii., 406, ex descriptio) and named by him Braunia argyrocarpa 
N. sp., also to Bescherelle, who says, ‘‘ ut videtur foliis tamen apice 
diaphanis quod nos indicat Mitten.” . 
Braunia suppricata E. G. Britton, n. sp. Ingenio del Oro, 10000 
ft., May, 1886 (3154); Mapiri, 5000 ft. (3154a). : 
Plants dark brownish green, in large dense mats, stems de- 
cumbent, pinnately branched, often giving off radiculose stolons, 
branches erect, 4-5 cm. long; leaves subsecund when moist, im- 
bricate and erect when dry, with three blunt ridges, not hyaline 
pointed, ovate-concave, over 1 mm. long, less than 1 mm. broad, 
with entire revolute margins and a conspicuously rolled border to 
the concave center, apex acute and concave, erose dentate, but not 
hyaline, conspicuously papillose at the tips of the branches, basal 
cells elongated brown, others regular and sinuous; perichetium 
narrowly lanceolate, erect, sulcate, 3 mm. long, with oblong yellow 
cells at base and middle and blunt erose tips; pedicels 1 cm. long, 
€rect or cernuous twisted, fulvous as well as the base of the cap- 
Sule, which is 2 mm. long with a straight beak over 1 mm. long, 
mouth with a thick red rim, calyptra brown, 3 mm. long, tufted 
and ragged at base with a straight beak 1 mm. long. 
Differs from H. phcata Mitt. (Bridges, Bolivia in Herb. Hooker) 
in the-dull brown color of the plants and in the leaves not being hy- 
aline tipped ; from H. secunda (Hook. Musci Exot. t. 46, Humboldt’s 
type in Herb. Hooker) in the larger, less secund leaves with more 
Strongly revolute margins ; resembling only an unnamed scrap in 
Herb. Hooker, collected by Mathews in Peru at Casapi, and a~ 
part of Braunia subsecunda Sch. M. S., no. 5, in Herb. Schimper 
without locality or name of collecter. (See Jaeger, p. 86) pencilled 
Mexico? by J. G. Baker. Sent to E. Bescherelle as B. plicata 
Mitt. he says = “? var. foliis majoribus !" he: A 
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