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[TAB. XXIX J 



WEISSIA RETICULATA. 



Cryptogamia Musci. Nat. Ord. Muscr. 



Weissia reticulata; caule brevi ramoso, foliis imbricatis 

 ovato-lanceolatis acutis concavis integerrimis laxissime 

 reticalatis, nervo attingente, capsula obovato-pyrifornii 

 nutante, operculo parvo ha^mispherico subumbonato* 



' (Tab. XXIX.) 



Hab. Prope Cape Town, ad promontorium Bouse SpeL 

 Z). Mtmd. 



Caules laxe csespitosi, breves ramosi, praecipue, ut videtur, 



innovationibus. Itami 



Folia 



i^ridia, arete imbricata, ovato-lanceolata, acuta, tenui- 

 membranacea, reticulata, areolis oblongis magnis, inte- 



gerrima, nervo satis valido ad apicem attingente instructa. 



Perichcetialia 



Seta 



terminalis, erecta, rubra. Capsula nutans, obovato-pyri- 

 formis, exapophysata, ore valde contracto. Calyptram 

 non vidi. Operculum minutum, hemisphaericum, apice 

 umbone minuta terminatum, basi ad cram capsulae annula- 

 turn. Perisfomium e dentibus 16, subulatis, indistincte 

 articulatis, uallide rufo-fuscis, subhorizontalibus. 



This I presume would be included in Bridel's new genus 

 Oreas^ being allied to the Weissia Mielichoferiana and TV. 

 ^longata, which, together with a plant of a very different ap- 

 pearance indeed, {Weissia imrtiana^) constitute that genus. 

 The habit of all these, with the exception of the last men- 

 tioned species, is similar to that of the B^^a; and the genus 

 Ptychostomum, with the same habit, and a very imperfect inner 

 peristome, may be considered almost as a connecting link. 



