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elongato, subpinnato ; ramis patentibus, subdistantibus, 

 subcomplanatis, acuminatis ; foliis laxis, erecto-patentibus, 

 lanceolato-acuminatis, mediotenus uninerviis, basi margine 

 recurvis, serrulatis, siccitate striatis. — Forest of Esme- 

 raldos, Prof. William Jameson, (Dr. Greville's Herba- 

 rium.) 



Stems a foot or more long, very slender ; branches short, 

 nearly at right angles with the stem. Leaves with a very 

 slender nerve. This has all the habit of Leskea mollis, Hedw. 

 the leaves, however, are less closely imbricated, are serrated, 

 with longer and narrower points and a short nerve. 



Hypnum, Linn. 



1. H. Jamesoni ; caule tripinnato, procumbente; ramis tenui- 

 bus; foliis remotiusculis, patentibus, caulinis cordatis 

 longius acuminatis, subintegerrimis, rameis ovatis acutis 

 denticulatis, omnibus enerviis, substriatis ; capsula late 

 ovata, pendula; operculo conico-rostellato ; seta lsevi, 

 apice deflexa, in apophysin abeunte. — No. 332, in woods 

 on the western side of Pichincha, Prof. William Jameson, 

 1845. 



It has the habit of the European H. prolongum, L. ; the 

 branches, however, are more slender, the leaves nerveless, 

 the elongated setae smooth and the capsule pendulous. Outer 

 peristome of sixteen trabeculate elongato-acuminate teeth ; 

 the inner of as many perforated lacunae, with two or three 

 lesser filiform processes interposed. 



2. H. Drummondii ; caule ceespitoso, adscendente, ramoso ; 

 ramis confertis, apice subincurvis ; foliis imbricatis, erec- 

 tiusculis, secundis, oblongo- ovatis, apiculatis, concavis, 

 enerviis, margine reflexis, integerrimis ; seta surculo sub- 

 sequali, laevi, sursum incrassata ; capsula erectiuscula, 

 msequali, anguste ovata; operculo longius curvirostro. — 

 Swan River, Mr. James Drummond. In the London 

 Journal of Botany, Mr. Wilson states it to have been 

 found likewise by Dr. Joseph D. Hooker at Van Diemen's 

 Land, and by Mr. Cunningham at King George's Sound. 

 Tufts wide, dense, golden-yellow, the very young shoots 



