54 NEW SPECIES OF MOSCI. 



rigid, from its base arise two or more annotinous shoots, so 



that the fruit appears radicular. The capsule has the habit 



of that of Pohlia elongata, Hedw., but our specimens are too 



immature to determine the peristome. Seta 1 inch long, 



subflexuose. The shining pale green tufts, with crowded 



slender shoots resembling those of a Hypnum, render this 



species remarkable among its congeners. 



7. B. creberrimum ; caule ceespitoso, erecto, ramoso ; foliis 



perichaetialibus in rosulam coarctatam congestis, ovatis, 



surculorum elongatorum lanceolatis, acuminatis, margine 



subreflexis, flexuosis, subintegerrimis, laxioribusj seta 



elongata; capsula nutante ex angusta rugosa apophysi 



cylindracea ; operculo convexo, mamillato. — Swan River, 



Mr. James Drummond. 



Stems aggregate, reddish. Leaves pale olive; on the 

 fertile stem few, and collected into a close short upright 

 shoot, from the base of which several simple branches arise, 

 on which the leaves are more distant, and somewhat folded : 

 the nerve in all is excurrent into a considerable point. Setae 

 very long, flexuose, numerous. This differs from Bryum 

 obconicum, Br. et Schimp. (a specimen of which, collected 

 by Mr. R. Spruce near Barnard Castle, has been compared,) 

 by the more elongated sterile shoots, their narrower leaves, 

 and by the more elongated capsules, which are by no means 

 obconical, but from a shrunken narrow apophysis are cylin- 

 drical. 



Bartramia, Hedw. 



1. B. strictifolia ; caule laxe ceespitoso, erecto, subsimplici; 

 foliis imbricatis, strictis, subulato-setaceis, subserrulatis, 

 margine reflexis, inferioribus adpressis, rectis, superioribus 

 recurvis ; capsula erectiuscula ex angusta basi subglobosa, 

 striata j opercula convexo, obtuse mamillato. — Swan River, 

 Mr. James Drummond. 

 Stems an inch high, at the base clothed with a dark-brown 



down, in the middle reddish-brown, at the tops glaucescent 



