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praecipue, argute serrata, iiervo ante apicem evanescente instructa. 

 Seta terminalis, solitaria, vel duse aut tres ex eodem puncto,^ 

 tripollicaris, la3vis. Capsula semiunciam longa, cylindracea, ho- 

 rizontalis, rufo-fusca. Operculum brevi-hemisphaericum. Peri- 

 stomium flavo-aurantiacum, ext* e dentibus transversim striatis: 

 interius membrana reticulata sedecim-laciniata, laciniis perforatis 

 vel profunde fissis apice unitis, ciliis brevibus duabus vel tribus 

 his alternantibus. 



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Notwithstanding the many curious Nepalese mosses which 



I have already laid before the public, I still possess^ by the 

 friendship of Dr. Wallich, several new species* Among them 



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the present will rank as the most remarkable, for the great 

 size of all its parts ; while at the same time, in point of 

 general structure, it must be allowed to have great affinity 

 with the Bryiim roseiim of our own country, and with the 

 South African Bryum umbraculum^ figured in Plate 133, 

 of my Miisci Eocotici. From the former it may, however, 

 he readily distinguished hy its much longer and narrower 

 capsules and margined leaves; from the latter, hy the different 

 direction of the capsule, more spathulate foliage ; and from 

 both, hy the leaves being much more distinctly serrated, and 

 hy the much greater and even gigantic size of the plant- 



Fig. 1. 2. 3, Plants: and Fig. 4. Single leaf, {naL size). Fig. 5. 6. 



Leaves. Fig. 7. Summit of ditto. Fig. 8. Capsule. Fig* 9. Por- 

 tion of the external peristome. Fig. 10. Portion of the inner 

 peristome r^Twor^ or less magnified. 



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