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Folia lete viridia, imbricata, erecto-patentia, disticha, cym- 
biformia, seu oblongo-ovata acuta apice incurva, compli- 
cato-carinata, denticulata, nervo valido, pellucido, excurrente, 
infra subdenticulato, papillosa, infima lanceolato-subulata, cauli 
appressa, minora; pericheetialia caulinis dissimilia, epapillosa, 
concava, arcte imbricata, interiora enervia. Vaginula cylin- 
drica, medio tumida. Seta erecta, levis, tenuis, viridis, tandem 
rufescens. Capsula basi strumosa, obtuse costata, costis opacis 
coloratis, intervallis autem incoloribus. Annulus adest spurius, 
seu membranz annulari similis. Peristomii dentes sæpe dif- 
fracti, integris vero late lanceolatis, obtusis, ad lineam axalem 
perforatis, rufescentibus, vix trabeculatis. ^ Columella capsule 
æqualis, linearis, tubulosa. 
Not aware of any described genus to which we could refer this 
curious plant, we have been reluctantly obliged to propose a new 
one. The present moss grew intermixed with Fissidens turbi- 
natus, Tayl., and has all the superficial habit of that genus ; even 
the teeth of the peristome show a propensity to be divided. The 
fruit is truly lateral and even radical. No male flowers have been 
observed ; hence we conclude our species to be not monoicous. 
SCHIZHYMENIUM, Schwaeg. 
1. S. nanum, Tayl. Caule cæspitoso, erecto, subsimplici basi 
nudo; foliis erectis, arcte imbricatis, ovatis, acuminatis, subin- 
tegerrimis, nervo evanescente ; capsula erecta (demum horizon- 
tali) pyriformi, hine gibba; setis cæspitem vix superantibus ; 
operculo minuto, convexo ; peristomio subnullo. 
On Pichincha. Prof. W. Jameson. Dec., 1846. 
Tufts scarcely half an inch high. Perichætial stems very short, at 
the base of the barren ones, all of them simple. Specimens of what 
we take to be Schizhymenium bryoides, Hook. (as given in Schwaeg. 
Supp. t. 328, a.), received from Professor Jameson, have a conical 
lid, in other respects they do not appear to differ from Schwaeg- 
richen’s plate, except, perhaps, by the longer and more gibbose 
capsules. The present species is distinct from both by the more 
ovate leaves, which are nearly entire, and by the peristome, which 
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