190 NEW MUSCI 
Stems scarcely two lines long. Leaves pale green, their nerve 
rather brown, rounded at the top, yet having a short apiculus, 
to which the nerve does not reach. Lid destitute of a mucro. 
Outer peristome of sixteen oblique, trabeculate, opaque teeth, 
` inner of as many opposite /acinie, which are pale brown, pel- 
lucid, and largely cellulose. The present differs from F. Fontanesii, 
Schw., by the very obtuse, sometimes rotundate tops of the leaves, 
by the plane lid and the more elongated capsule, whose seed-con- 
taining cavity occupies only one-third of the fruit; the vaginula, 
too, is longer. No male flowers were observed. 
Fisstpens, Hedw. 
1. F. turbinatus, Tayl. Caule laxius cæspitoso, erecto, simplici, 
apice subincurvo ; foliis erectiusculis, distichis, deorsum hetero- 
mallis, elongate lingulatis, integerrimis ; seta terminali; capsula 
erectiuscula, elongato-turbinata, basi strumosa ; opereulo conico, 
acuminato-rostrato. 
On Pichincha. Prof. W. Jameson. Dec., 1846. 
Shoots pale green, scarcely one inch long. Leaves from à 
somewhat broader base, linear, obtuse. Capsule very slightly in- 
curved, the mouth wide. The strumose base of the capsule and 
the entire and elongated heteromallous leaves separate the present 
abundantly from F. adiantoides, Hedw. No male flowers were 
observed. 
CYMBARIA, Tayi. novum genus. 
Ch. Gen. Flores dioici; feminei aggregati, radicales. — Peristo- 
mium simplex; dentes sedecim declinati, late lanceolati, rimis 
axalibus pertusi. Capsula subæqualis, striata; annulo persis- 
tente. Calyptra dimidiata ? 
Habitus Fissidentis. Capsula Weissia. Peristomium Se/erodontis. 
Sedes terrestris. Patria tropica. Vita perennis. 7 
1. C. Jamesoni, Tayl. In monte Pichincha. Prof. W. Jameson, 
Maio, 1847. 
Caules fere unciales, erecti, laxe cæspitosi, basi simplices, sub- - 
nudi, tomentosi, supra vage ramosi.  Surculi  complanati. s 
