BRAZILIAN MOSSES. 151 
resembles the figure of 4.? Domingense, Schwaegrichen, 
Suppl. t. 267, b. 
3. E nni torquatum, Hook. Musc. Exot. t. 41. On 
trees, Serra de Santa Brida, Province of Goyaz. Feb. 
1840. 
4. Gymnostomum Barbula. Schwaegr. Suppl. t. 175. i 
foliis patulis confertis spathulatis obtusis.—Growing wit 
the last. : 
5. G. Barbula, foliis linearibus. Serra di Araripe, near Brejo 
Grande, province of Ceara. Feb. 1839. 5 
6. G. blandum, nov. sp. Caule brevissimo, foliis confertis 
obovatis concavis obtusis integerrimis siccitate appressis, 
nervo subcontinuo, capsula oblongo-elliptica ore coarctato, 
operculo conico-rostrato. 
On sandstone rocks, near the city of Oeiras. May 1839. 
Considerably smaller than the preceding. Seta not Pi 
fourth of an inch long. Leaves firmer, erecto-patent. «d 
nulus present. Operculum nearly as long as the capsule. 
Calyptra dimidiate, small. 
7. G. (Physcomitrium) Bonplandii, Humboldt. Organ — 
tains, on clay banks. Differs from an original specimen 
the somewhat narrower leaves, which are more concave 
and less apiculate ; the capsule is also narrower, n. " (2). 
8. The same species, with Lo ovate leaves. Organ 
Mountains. April, 1837, n. 26, (2). : 
» Heiden subglobosum, C.F. Hornschuch, in “ Flora 
Brasiliensis.” € 
On a clay bank, Rio Comprido, July, 1837 ; and on an d 
Wall in the Laranjeiras Valley. In the form of the gy 
this differs considerably from all the ai forms of the 
Benus. n. 7, (3), n. 2, (1), and x. 27, (1). E 
10. ae ce nigricans, nov. sp. Caule erecto simplici, 
foliis- erecto-patentibus lineari-lanceolatis acutis zeoe 
 àpicem serrulatis siccitate tortis, nervo lato lamellata ot 
sula ovata inclinata, operculo tenuirostro, Sie 3 
P. nigricans. MSS. in Gardner, Herb. Fl. Bras. Musci, 
No. 10, aioe Oe 
