Mr. Hooker's Descriptions of new Mosses from Nepal. 313 



tescenti-viridia, basi purpurascentia, inferiora patula, vol 

 sajpe recurvato-patula, ex ovato breviter modo acuminata 

 integemma, atro-viridia; omnia concava. sod margine juxta 

 basin piano, nervo circitcr medium evancscentc instructs • 

 pmc/^m Wecto-patula, pallida liiteo-virescentia ; interiora' 

 majora, oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata, apicom versus sub- 

 serrata, valde concava, et aliquantum crispata, nervo ob- 

 scure ante medium evanido ; cxteriora longe minora, lan- 

 ceolata, plana, integerrima, et basi tantum nervo brevissi- 

 mo mstructa. Capsula ramorum ad latera sit*, semper se- 

 cundas, solitarue, et plerumqne intervallis majusculis se- 

 juncte, subglobos*, lasves, fusco-lutescentes, ora incrassata, 

 rubr4, brevissime pedunculate, ut prorata sessiles videantur, 

 rolus penchaetialibus multo breviores, iisque obtectse, unde 

 seorsiim observatae, Phasco cuspidate non sunt absimiles! 

 Operculum comcum, acutum, parum rugosum, interne stria- 

 tum, basi annulo composito cinctum. Peristomium duplex 

 utrumque albicans, et nigro-fasciatum ; intcrius, dcntes se- 

 decim fihformes, cum exterioribus, latioribus, brevioribus 

 alternantes. Scmina magna, sphaerica, fusco-viridia, ru<rosa 

 quasi pulvere obtecta, quod, si sub lente in aqua conspici- 

 antur, evidentmimum est. Calyptra nondum a me visa. 



Tbe affinity of this moss with the British Neckera heteromalla 

 is too remarkable to escape notice; and it is most pleasant to the 

 scientific observer of nature to find the artificial system of Ge- 

 nera so confirmed by individuals collected on the trunk, of trees 

 m England and in the distant regions of Nepal. The spherical 

 capsule appears, however, a sufficient criterion to distinguish 

 the present species from every other at present known. 



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