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



here figured with original specimens in Mr. Turner's valuable 

 Herbarium, and find them agree so precisely in every particular, 

 excepting those just mentioned, as to leave no doubt of their 

 identity. 



Tab. XXVIII. Fig. 2. 



a* small branch, magnified, 

 b. b. leaves. 



15. Hypnum proliferum. 



16. Hypnum Buchananu 



Hypnum caule procumbente, ramis erecto-patulis, foliis ovatis 

 acuminatis subserratis uninervibus, capsuld cernud, operculo 

 conico obtuso. 



Canles bi- tri- pollicares, adscendentes, pinnatim ramosi. Rami 

 - erecti, circiter unguiculares, subdistichi, sparsi, plerumque 

 simplices, sed interdum repetito-divisi, filiformes, teretes, 

 acuminati, undique foliosi. Folia lutescenti-viridia, nitida, 

 undique laxe imbricata, erecta, plana, ovata, longe acumi- 

 nata, nervo tenui, viridi, ad medium usque percurrente in- 

 structs, apices versus subserrata, et apicibus, prsecipue in 

 ramis superioribus, flexuosis; caulina majora, latiora, ad 

 basin striata; ramea angustiora; omnia eleganter reticu- 

 lata; perichcztialia lineari-Ianceolata; longe acuminata, 

 apice torta et reflexa. Pedicelli in ramis orti, frequerites, 

 subunguiculares, rufi, erecti, laeves. Capsttla rufo-fuscse, 

 cernuae, oblonga?, reticulata?. Operculum conicum,obtusum, 

 capsular concolor, et similiter reticulatum. Calyptra dimi- 

 diata, subulata, fuscella, laevis.-— Exemplarium a3tas baud 

 satis provecta peristomium investigare vetuit. 



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