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has a peculiar aspect. Male flower stellate, the perigonial leaves 
wider and larger than the rest, widely spreading. It is interme- 
diate between M. stellare and M. orthorhynchum, most allied to 
the former, and in its ramification approaches to BrywmMen- 
ziesii, Hooker, which is also a Minium. 
Tas, X. A. Fig. 1, 2, Plants; nat. size; f. 3, 4, leaves; f. 5, trans- 
verse section of a leaf; f. 6, apex of a leaf; f. 7, perigonial leaf : 
—magnified. 
26. Bartramia rigida, Br. and Schimp. var. gracilis. In a marsh 
on the hills, Pih-quan Island. 
27. Polytrichum angustatum, var. Wall tops and dry banks, 
Chusan. 
28. Polytrichum tortile, var. foliis angustioribus. “ P. contortum, 
Menz.” Harvey, in * Musci Indici," not Schwaegr. Foliage, 
when dry, reddish-brown. Perhaps a distinct species.—On the 
ground, in a copse-wood at Chusan. 
29. Leskea fragilis, Hook. and Wils. in Drummond, Musc. 
Americ. No. 101. Same as the next of that work (n. 102.), 
of which it is the barren state, and hitherto known only without 
fruit. On dry banks, Chusan. 
30. Anomodon fragilis, (n. sp.) Caule repente, ramis suberectis 
incurvis brevibus gracillimis parce ramulosis, foliis ovato-acumi- 
natis subinde ovato-lingulatis obtusis squarrosis fragilibus sic- 
citate appressis evanidinerviis perichætialibus longioribus ovato- 
lingulatis, seta perbrevi, capsula suberecta, operculo brevirostre, 
calyptra pilosa. (Tab. X. B.) 
Has. On the trunk of an old tree, Chusan. 
Fertile plant much more dwarfish than the supposed barren 
state (No. 29), not more than half an inch long ; the leaves also, 
except a few at the extremity of the branches, are scarcely ligu- 
late; they agree, however, in the dull glaucous hue, granular tex- 
ture, and being appressed when dry, the branches become very 
slender. Seta two lines long, smooth. Vaginula hairy. Peri- 
chætial leaves erect. Peristome (scarcely intelligible in our 
unripe specimen) with sixteen outer teeth, sometimes bifid and 
traces of internal cilia of the same length. Annulus simple. 
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