314 Mr. Hooker's Descriptions of new Mosses from Nepal, 



Tab. XXVII. Fig. 1. 



a. Neckera spharocarpa, natural size. 



b. part of a branch, magnified. 



c. upper leaf magnified. 



d. apex of the same, more highly magnified. 



e. lower leaf magnified. 



f. perichcetial leaf 



i g. apex, more highly magnified. 



h. capsule and interior perichcetial leaf 



i. operculum. 



k. operculum seen internally with the annulus. 



1. part of the peristomium. 



m. seeds. 



9. Neckera flatescens. 



Neckera caule erecto pinnato, ramis simpliciusculis, foliis ovatis 

 enervibus, capsula cylindraeed erects, operculo subulato. 



Caules tri- quinque- pollicares, erecti, pinnatim ramosi ; rami 

 vagi, plerumque alterni, elongati, paullum flexuosi, sub- 

 compressi, acuti, horizontals, nunc simplices, nunc aliis 

 minoribus similiter instructi, undique foliosi. Folia laxius- 

 cule imbricata, erecta, et cauli appressa, planiuscula, ova- 

 ta, breviter acuminata, prorsus enervia, lutescentia; sum- 

 ma aureo-fulva ; omnia siccitate nitentia, basi reticulata, 

 margine integerrima ; perichcetialia reliquorum similia, sed 

 minora, angustiora, et longissime acuminata, recurvato-patula. 

 Pedicelli in ramis siti, unciales, laterales, laeves, erecti, tenuis- 

 simi, rufi. Capsula oblongo-cylindracea, tenuis, erecta, ru- 



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