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[TAB. XXVII.] 



MONOCLEA CRISPATA. 



Cryptogamia Hepatice. Nat. Ord. HEPATiciE. 



Gen. Char. Receptaculum commune fructus nullum. Cap- 

 sula pedunculo calyce longiori insidens, univalvis, hinc 

 longitudinaliter dehiscens. Semiiia, filamentaque spiralia 

 columellae tenuissimae affixa. 



Monoclea cnspata ; densissime caespitosa, frondibus dicho- 

 tomis pinnatifidis valde crispatis proliferis, capsula lineari- 

 oblonga apice bifida. (Tab. XXVII.) 



Hab. In ramis arborum, Insulae Sancti Vincentii. Rev. L. 

 Guilding. 



Frondes caespitosae, parvae, virides, dichotonie divisa*, costatae, 

 membranaceae, minutse reticulatae, pinnatifidaj; lobis in- 

 signiter crispatis subrotundatis ; in costam globuliferae ; 

 globidis rotundatis, cai'nosis, sessilibus, demum proliferis ; 

 gemmis subcalyciformibus, angulatis, convexis, inflatis, 

 marginibus involutis, cribrosis. Calyx cylindraceus, 

 carnosus, vix duas lineas longus, apice hinc fissus. Pe- 

 duncidus magis minusve e calyce exsertus, pallide virides- 

 cens. Capsula linearis, pallide fusca, hinc longitudinaliter 

 dehiscens, apice fissa. Columella centralis, gracillima, 

 filiformis, cui semina filamentaque spiralia, e duplice 

 helice, affixae. Semina (pro ratione plantae) magna, 

 sphserica, subrotundata, paululum angulata. 



If it is agreeable, in the present very advanced state of our 

 knowledge of Botany, to detect and describe a new genus 

 of plants, it is doubly so to discover, at an after period, 

 another individual of the same genus, which shall determine 

 the correctness and the validity of the former one. Such 

 is the case in the present instance. In Mr. Lambert's 

 Herbarium, among those plants collected by the celebrated 

 John Reynold Foster, during the voyage of Captain Cook, 



