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wider, with margins more remarkably recurved ; the setse are 

 finer ; the capsule more cylindrical, and the lid is furnished 

 with an extremely short beak. No annulus is present. 



3. G. inflexum ; caule brevi, subsimplici, laxe eeespitoso ; 

 foliis ex lata amplexante basi lanceolatis, nervo apiculatis, 

 integerrimis, margine inflexis, siccitate tortis, incurvis ; 

 capsula ovato-cylindracea; operculo oblique rostrato. — 

 Swan River, Mr. James Drummond, 



Tufts pale yellowish-green. Exterior leaves shorter and 

 wider, all embracing the stem by a thin nearly pellucid base. 

 Capsules pale brown, their mouths, however, as well as their 

 bases are reddish. The seta is very slender and straw- 

 coloured. Gymn. involutum, Hooker, is a taller plant, with 

 leaves not so acute and their tips serrulate at the mar- 

 gins, (although not so represented in the " Musci Exo- 

 tici,") and with capsules more elongate. 



4. G. apophysatum ; caule abbreviato, subsimplici ; foliis ob- 

 longis, tenuibus, concavis, apiculatis, subserrulatis, nervo 

 ante apicem evanescente ; capsula ovata, longius obconice 

 apophysata ; operculo piano, calyptra tumida, apice subu- 

 lata. — Swan River, Mr. James Drummond. 



Has the habit of a Funaria ; and the pericheetium rose- 

 shaped with tumid congested leaves. Setse nearly an inch 

 long. From Gymnostomum Rottleri, Schwaeg., the present 

 may be distinguished by the more elongated apophysis to the 

 capsule and the evanescent nerve of the leaf. 



Leptostomum, Brown. 



1. L. squarrosum ; caule laxe caespitoso, subramoso, ramis 

 erectis ; foliis laxis, patenti-recurvis, late ovatis, integerri- 

 mis, acutis, margine subflexuosis ; capsula obovata, striata, 

 subaequali; operculo tenuiter longirostro. — In marshy 

 situations, at an elevation of 14,000 feet, on Cayambe. 

 Prof. W.Jameson. (Dr. Greville's Herbarium). 

 The stems are more slender than in any of the congeners, 



while the more distant and squarrose leaves render our plant 



