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This moss is shorter, the shoots more bushy above, and 
the leaves longer than in B. Halleriana, Hedw.; besides, the 
capsule is altogether sessile, and the outer peristome wanting. 
Here is a fine opportunity for those who delight in forming 
new Genera. In a natural system it is not easy to separate 
Our species from the Bartramie. 
3. B. elegantula, Tayl. Caule laxe cæspitoso, gracillimo, 
erecto, subfasciculatim ramoso ; foliis approximatis, erectis, 
lanceolatis, subdenticulatis, nervo sub summo apice eva- 
nescente; perigoniis paucifoliis arcte imbricatis, subro- 
tundis; pedicellis caulem superantibus; capsula sub- 
æquali, subglobosa, inclinata, substriata ; operculo convexo 
acuminulato.—On Pichincha; Prof. W. Jameson. Nov. 
1846. 
Shoots 2-3 inches high, very slender. Pedicels flexuose. 
Capsule when thoroughly moistened perfectly smooth. Teeth 
of the inner peristome, one lying exactly under each of the 
_ Suter, with one or two unequal lacinie. Approaches B. 
. filiformis, Hornsch., but it is not so branched, the bases of | 
the leaves are narrower, their tops are more acuminate, the — 
GEO evanescent under their summits, their cellules larger, — — 
the pedicels are not so fine, the capsule much larger, and - 
., * Perigonial leaves are fewer and more closely adpressed. — 
4. B. minuta, Tayl. Caulibus aggregatis, demum innovanti- _ 
_Tamosis, erectis; foliis arcte imbricatis, strictis, erectis, — 
anguste lanceolatis, acuminatis, subserrulatis, margine basi 
reflexis, capsulis subsphæricis, subpellucidis, erectiusculis ; 
"Pereulo convexo-conico, subpellucido. — Near Quito ; 
Prof. W. Jameson. Nov. 1846. Tie 
traight, rigid 
