Dr. Smith's Characters of Hookeria. £79 



eellus uncialis, ruber. Capsula pendula, ovata, fusca, insigniter 

 reticulata. Operculum non vidi, neque calyptram. 



5. H. tamariscina, ramis fasciculatis, foliis obliquis trifariis ser- 

 ratisuninervibus;intermediisuip]6minoribusovato-lanceo]atjs. 



Leskea tamariscina. Hedxc. Sp. Muse. 212. L 51. f. 1 7. 



Hypnum tamarisci. Swartz. Prod. 141. 



In plagis australioribus. 11 . 



Jn Jamaica. Dr. Swartz. At the Cape of Good Hope. Mr. 

 A. Menzies. 



Radix repens, villosa, nigra. Caules sparsi, erecti, unciales, 

 nudiusculi, apice ramosi ; ramis fasciculatis, patulis, subdivisis, 

 hand uncialibus, undique foliosis. Folia laete viridia, reticulata, 

 trifaria, Grata, acuminata, serrata, ultra medium uninervia, omnia 

 siccitate torta; majora obliqua, basi integerrima; intermedia 

 iripld minora, undique serrata, aequilatera. Setas intermedias 

 ab Hedwigio depictas frustr& quaesivimus. Perichatia subcon- 

 ferta, foliolis ovatis, acuminatis, concavis, integerrimis. Pedi- 

 cellus haud uncialis, ruber. Capsula pendula, ovata, pulchre 

 reticulata. Operculum subulatum, longitudine capsular, basi 

 convexum, Cabjptra reticulata, flavicans, in unico nostro ex- 

 emplari, casu forsitan, lacera. 



6. H. rotulata, ramis fasciculatis, foliis trifariis serratis uninervj- 

 bus; intermediis duplo minoribus orbiculatis basi integerrimis. 

 Leskea rotulata. Hedw. Sp. Muse. 213. t. 51. /. 8 — 13. 



In Australasia, n . 



In New Zeeland. Mr. A. Menzies. 



Habitus praacedentis. Folia pallidiora, tenuius reticulata, la- 

 tiora, et vix obliqua ; intermedia baud duplo minora, apice tan- 



tum, 



