64 NEW SPECIES OF MUSCI. 



pale green. Shoots about 1 inch high, the older reddish. 

 Perichaetia small, about the middle of the shoots, sending 

 down rootlets. Capsules erect at the base, slightly curved 

 above. Inner peristome of sixteen laciniae with single fili- 

 form processes interposed. It has much the habit of 

 H. tenuirostre, Hook., but the shoots are shorter, the leaves 

 are entire and have reflexed margins, and shorter points, 

 while the capsule is more erect. 

 2. H. lepturum, caule ceespitoso, procumbente, ramoso; ramis 

 brevibus subincurvis, lucidis, pallidissime virentibusj foliis 

 arete imbricatis, erectis, secundis, lanceolatis, acuminatis, 

 subserrulatis, basi marginibus recurvis, mediotenus uni- 

 nerviis. — Swan River, Mr. James Drummond. 

 Tufts forming flattish shining silvery green cushions a foot 

 or more wide. Leaves near the tops of the shoots with 

 elongated, almost piliferous summits. The very slender and 

 taper branches remind one of H. reflexum, Web. et Mohr. ; 

 our plant, however, has a distinguishing whitish-green silky 

 lustre, and the leaves have their nerves reaching only half 

 way to the summits. 



4. H. ewpansum ; caule repente ; surculis adscendentibus, 

 implexis, subpinnatis; ramis utrinque acuminatis, com- 

 planatis; foliis laxe imbricatis, subpatentibus, distichis, 

 oblongis, apice rotundatis, apiculatis, serratis margine 

 planis, mediotenus uninerviis, seta leevi, apice decufva; 

 capsula ovata. — On Pichincha, near Quito, Prof. William 

 Jameson, 1827, (Dr. Greville's Herbarium.) 



Shoots pale green, nearly 3 inches high, bent at their 

 tops. Leaves with the margins at one side of the base 

 inflexed. Outer peristome of sixteen lanceolate, barred teeth, 

 inner of as many foraminulose laciniee with two filiform 

 processes interposed between each pair. Our plant is 

 scarcely dendroid — as are H. alopecurum, L., and H. necke- 

 roides, Hook., both of which, besides, have very concave 

 leaves, with margins reflexed and with a solid nerve reaching 

 nearly to their summits. 



5. H. microcladum ; caule subimplexo, procumbente ; ramis 

 abbreviatis, crectis, subcomplanatis ; foliis laxe imbricatis, 



