336 NEW MUSCI AND HEPATICÆ. 
sules, which are never striated, will serve to separate this 
from states of B. Marchica, Sw. 3 
Mnivum, Hedw. 
L M. grandifolium, Tayl. Caule elongato, erecto, subsim- 
plici ; foliis inferioribus distantibus, superioribus in rosu- 
lam congestis, patentibus, elongate obovatis, apiculatis, 
subimmarginatis, subdenticulatis ; pedicellis subbinis; cap- 
sula lineari-obovata, cernua, subapophysata; operculo 
conico, acuminulato. — On Pichincha ; Prof. W. Jameson. 
Oct. 9, 1827, Dr. Greville’s Herb. collected again in 
Nov. 1846. 
Stems 4-5 inches high, having at intervals congestions of 
leaves of past years, of which the upper is the most ex- 
panded. Leaves sometimes half an inch long, slightly 
marginate, their minute serrulation observable only under 
à highly magnifying lens. Pedicel bent down at the top. 
. Capsule unequal. Inner peristome of 16 broad, perforated 
— lacinie, with three filiform processes interposed. It is e 
ceedingly like M. roseum, Hedw., differing by the T: 
tomentose and more elongated stems, the more marginate 
leaves, which, too, are nearly entire, and by the far! ; 
and narrower capsules. | 
is, erviis, subdenticulatis 
tonio subnullo.—n Pichincha; Prof: W, Jameson: 
. Patches pale green. Shoots slender as human 
