312 Mr. Hooker's Descriptions of new Mosses from Nepal. 



its whole habit appearing to require that it should ultimately be 

 removed from the Pterogonia, with which, on account of its pe- 

 ristomium, it did not appear possible to avoid associating it at 

 present. 



Tab. XXVI. Fig. 4. 



a. Pterogonium ambiguum, natural size. 



b. capsuliferous branch, magnified. 



c. leaf. 



d. perich&tial leaf, 



e. capsule. 



f. operculum. 



g. peristomium, with the capsule. 



6. Die ran um scoparium. Hedw. 

 7« Polytrichum aloides. Hedw. 



8. Neckera sphcerocarpa. 



Neckera caule pinnato, ramis abbreviatis, foliis ovatis acuminatis 

 mediotenus uninervibus, capsulis subglobosis subsessilibus 

 secundis. 



Habitat in truncis arborum apud Kargoo. D. Buchanan. 



Catties bi- tri-pollicares, penduli, ramosi; rami alterni, sparsi, 

 remoti, horizontales, plerumque simplices et breves, longitu- 

 dine tamen incertae, paullum flexuosi, apices versus at- 

 tenuati. Folia undique laxe imbricata ; superiora cauli ap- 

 pressa, apicibus tamen saepius subsecundis, ovato-lanceo- 

 lata, longfc acuminata, ad apicem minutissime serrulata, lu- 



tescenti- 



