518 Mr. Hook Kit's Descriptions of new Mosses from Nepal. 



spc cimens. They are also serrated throughout their whole length. 

 Besides this, the ends of the branches are remarkably incurved ; 

 which furnishes so strong and obvious a character of the plant 

 that I have derived the specific name from that circumstance. 



Tab. XXVII. Fig. 4. 



a. Bartramia fulcata, natural size, 

 b. b. parts of the branch, magnified. 



c. leaf, 



d. perichatial leaf. 

 c. capsule. 



f. calyptra. 



13. Buyum heterophyllum. 



Bryum caule subdiviso, foliis serratis : infimis subrotundis ; sum- 

 mis lineari-acuminatis, capsula cernua, operculo convexo. 



Caules caespitosi, simplices, vel prope basin vage divisi, unciales 

 et ultra, per dimidiam fere longitudinem terr& immersi et 

 aphylli ; inde foliosi. Folia majuscula, atro-purpurea, mar- 

 gine incrassata, purpurea, serrata, nervo valido purpureo 

 instructa, clegantissime reticulata, madore erecto-patula, 

 siccitate crispatula. Foliorum formal et nervi longitudo, 

 mire variant ; inferior a ovata seu ovato-subrotunda, apice 

 modo minute serrata, nervo circa medium evanescente in- 

 structa ; intermedia ovato-elliptica, magis evidenter serrata, 

 nervo infra apicem evanescente; supcriora longe-lanceolata, 

 argute serrata, nervo valido excurrente ; omnia acuta. Pe- 

 dicelhts terminalis, erectus, uncialis, lsevis, infernk croceus, 

 supcrnk rutilans. Capsula ovato-oblonga, subcernua, fusca. 



Operculum 



