340 NEW MUSCI AND HEPATICÆ. 
nato; pinnis brevibus, patentibus, remotiusculis; folis 
caulinis late cordatis, acuminatis, subsquarrosis, rameis 
cordato-ovatis, acutis, omnibus integerrimis, mediotenus 
uninerviis, punctato-cellulosis; pedicellis gracillimis, lævi- 
bus; capsula ovata, erecta, subæquali ; operculo conico, 
rostellato.—Near Quito; Prof. W. Jameson. Nov. 1846. 
Patches wide, dense. Stems 1-14 inch long, with a 
brown down on the inferior surface ; covered with minute 
scales, resembling leaves, but varying in breadth. Mo- 
noicous. Leaves dense in structure, papillose, celluloso- 
crenulate; the perichætial closely adpressed, pole straw- 
coloured, elongato-acuminate. Calyptra dimidiate. Outer 
peristome of 16 rather opaque teeth; inner divided into as 
many equidistant /aciniæ, without any interposed processes. 
The leaves are like those of Haplohymenium microphyllum, — 
Schwaeg., but the branches are more distant, the stems - 
more scaly, the capsules shorter, the lid more rostrate, 
the inner peristome of Schwaegrichen's plant is that 
a true Hypnum. 
PrAarocurLA, Nees et Mont. 
1. P. Jamesoni, Tayl. Caule decumbente; surculis adsce 
dentibus, subsimplicibus, amplioribus, planis; folis m 
joribus, imbricatis, patentibus, dimidiato-cordatis, : 
apice paucidentatis, margine ventrali basi rotundato; p€' 
 goniis linearibus, spicatis; in surculos productis; C^ 
. Cibus terminalibus campanulatis, bilabiatis, dentic! 
orso alatis, ala denticulata; capsulis subexs 
- Pichincha; Prof. W. Jameson. Nov. 1846. — 
Loosely cæspitose; shoots 2-3 inches long, } inch 
. E. 
olive-green. Leaves complanate, imbricated so- 
des tral margins passing across the stems, 
 tumid and recurved, and slightly decurrent. Perich&® 
leaves more erect and more denticulate than the € 
