158 BRAZILIAN MOSSES. 
nervo excurrente, capsula immersa subsessili, operculo co- 
nico-acuminato, calyptra mitriformi basi quadrifida apice 
scabra. 
Organ Mountains. On the trunk of a tree. 5. Arrial das 
Merces. One inch and more in height, leaves subserrulate, 
reddish-brown, reticulation dotted ; outer peristome reddish, 
inner of the same colour, composed of thirty-two filiform 
processes. 
72. Fabronia polycarpa, Hook. Musc. Exot. t. 3. 
On the stem of a large palm-tree, near Pernambuco, 1837. 
72. b. The same. Near Bahia. Sept. 1837. c. Corcovado, 
n. 10, (3), 6, (3), and 23, (1). 
73. Pterogonium urceolatum ? Schwaegr. Suppl. t. 110. 
Far. foliis magis lanceolatis, secundis. 
Woods of Minas Geraes. Specimens scanty and imperfect. 
74. Antitrichia Brasiliensis ? Hornsch. in Fl. Brasil. 
On a tree. Mission of Duro, Oct. 1839. Specimens few 
and imperfect. 
This moss very much resembles Neckera acuminata, Hook. 
Musc. Exot. t. 151. 
75. Grimmia julacea, Hornsch. in Fl. Brasil. t. 1, f. 1. 
Woods of Minas Geraes, 1841. 
This moss is cladocarpous, not acrocarpous, (vide Bruch, 
et Schimper, Bryol. Europ.) and is altogether unlike Grimmia 
in habit; it belongs to the Bridelian genus Cryphea, except 
that the inner peristome is wanting. 
75. b. The same. Organ Mountains. c. Morro Velho. Oct. 
1840. d. Minas Geraes, near Formoso. 
76. Neckera virens, nov. sp. Caule subpinnato complanato, 
ramis brevibus, foliis laxiusculis lateralibus patentibus reli- 
quis erectiusculis ovatis acuminatis concavis integerrimis 
subenerviis siccitate appressis, seta brevi, capsula elliptico- 
oblonga erecta, operculo conico acuminato. 
On a rock near a waterfall, Organ Mountains, n. 6, (2). 
Leaves deep green, with two short nerves at the base; 
reticulation small, the areole oblong. Seta 3-4 lines long. 
Perichzetial leaves convolute, erect, lanceolate. Outer peris- 
tome red, teeth converging lanceolate frequently bifid or per- 
