Mr. Hook En's Descriptions of new Mosses from 'Nepal 317 



11. Bartramia fontanel. I led w. 



12. Bartramia/<?/c«/(7. 



Bartramia caule subdiviso apice falcato, foliis quadrifariis ovato- 

 Janceolatis serratis secundis, pedicellis caulcm subaxiuan- 

 tibus. 



Caules dense caespitosi, tripollicares et ultra, nunc simplices, 

 nunc inferne bis ter vage dicbotomi, toinento denso ferru- 

 gineo-fusco ad medium longitudinis obsiti, inde foliosi. 

 Rami fastigiati, erecti, apicibus insigniter falcatis. Folia 

 laete viridia, quadrifariam posita, laxiuscule imbricata, erec- 

 to-patula, apicibus tamen, praesertim siccitate, secundis, 

 ovato-lanceolata, acuminata, concavo-carinata, margine 

 ubique serrata, pulcherrime reticulata, nervo valido, fusco, 

 excurrente instructa; perichcetialia vix discrepant, nisi quod 

 sint e basi ovata in acumen multd longius producta, apice 

 solummodo serrata, et pallide lutescentia. Pedicelli laeves, 

 e ramorum axillis caulis infra medium orti, pollicares et ul- 

 tra, sed longitudine vix ramos excedentes, fusci, erecti, vel 

 basi flexuosi. Capsula globosa, subcernua, fusca, matura 

 sulcata. Operculum deest. Cah/ptra integra, cylindraceo- 

 conica, albicans, glabra. Peristomium fusco-rubescens. 



This very distinct and beautiful species of a beautiful genus 

 is most nearly allied to B. fontana, and particularly to the var. @. 

 of the plant figured in Mr. Turner's Muscologia llibemica (t. 10. 

 f. 1.), but it differs in having the leaves more loosely imbricated, 

 always disposed in four rows, with summits slightly incurved, 

 and pointing the same way, as is particularly observable in dried 



specimens. 



