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Habitat : in Surinamo, ubi omnium primus collegit cloct. VAN BEEK 

 VOLLENHOVEN et cum herb, clariss. MIQUEL communicavit. 

 FOCKE in herb. MIQUEL n. 1388 ; ad trunoos prope Parama- 

 ribo, KEG EL. 



Tab. XVIIT. fig. 1. planta natur. magnit. ; 2. plantae pars tricies aucta ; 

 3. ramuli pars cum gemmis masculis et femine^,, 4. 5. 6. folia, quin- 

 quagies aucta; 7. folium centies et quinquagies auctum; 8. antheridia 

 centies aucta; 9. 10. folia perigonii, 11. perichaetium, 12. ejusdem 

 folium interius, quinquagies aucfa; 13. archegonium centies auctum; 

 14. capsula operculata, 15. capsula deoperculata, 16. capsula junior, 17. 

 capsula sicca vetustior, 18. calyptra, qwinquagies auctae', 19. peristo- 

 mii pars ducenties aucta; 20. sporae trecenties auctae. 



49. HYPNUM PUNGENS HEDW. Spec. muse. p. 237. tab. 00. MULL. 

 Syn. muse. II. p. 387. LesJcea pungens Sw. Fl. ind. occid. 

 III. p. 1800. BRID. Bryol. univ. II. p. 291. MULL. Linnaea 

 1848. p. 197. LesJcea patens HNSCH. Fl. brasil. I. p. 72. 



Plantae caespitosae, laxe cohaerentes, uberrime fructigerae, rigidiuscu- 

 lae, luteo-virides, siccae stramineo-lutescentes ; caulis repens, vage ra- 

 mosus, flexuosus ; rami e basi adscendente erecti, curvati, flexuosi, cras- 

 siusculi, laxe foliosi, valde irregulariter ramulosi, ramulis cuspidatis vel 

 aduncis. 



Folia undique inserta, subhorizontaliter patentia, versus apices ramo- 

 rum attenuates subsecunda, stricta, e basi ooarctata et subauriculata 

 brevissima caulem amplectente reflexa, late lanceolato-acuminata, apice 

 acutiuscula vel emarginato-truncatula , margine integerrimo magis mi- 

 nusve involuta, laevia, splendentia, costa destituta vel costis binis ob- 

 soletis praedita ; areolatione e cellulis linearibus, confertissimis, pallidis, 

 angustis, ad utramque baseos alana 3 maximis limpidissimis vel flavidis 

 impressis subquadrato-oblongis, vesiculaeformibus. 



Florescentia hermaphrodita. Flores in ramis et ramulis axillares, gem- 

 miformes. Gemmae ovato-subrotundae, patulae, oligophyllae : folia 

 erecta, valde concava, arete convoluta, latissime ovata, subrotunda, cu- 



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