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[TAB. XXIX.] 



WEISSIA RETICULATA. 



Cryptogamia Musci. Nat. Ord. Musci. 



Weissia reticulata; caiile brevi ramoso, foliis imbricatis 

 ovato-lanceolatis acutis concavis integerrimis laxissime 

 reticulatis, nervo attingente, capsula obovato-pyriformi 

 nutante, operculo parvo haemispherico subumbonato. 

 (Tab. XXIX.) 



Hab. Prope Cape Town, ad promontoriuni Bonae Spei, 

 D. Mund. 



Caules laxe caespitosi, breves ramosi, preecipue, ut videtur, 

 innovationibus. Rami, una cum foliis, teretes. Folia 

 viridia, arete imbricata, ovato-lanceolata, acuta, tenui- 

 membranacea, reticulata, areolis oblongis magnis, inte- 

 gerrima, nervo satis valido ad apicem attingente instructa. 

 PerichfBtialia minora, magis acuminata, rubro tincta. Seta 

 terminalis, erecta, rubra. Capsula nutans, obovato-pyri- 

 formis, exapophysata, ore valde contracto. Calyptram 

 non vidi. Operculum minutum, hemisphaericum, apice 

 umbone minuta terminatum, basi ad oram capsulae annula- 

 tum. Peristomium e dentibus 16, subulatis, indistincte 

 articulatis, pallide rufo-fuscis, subhorizontalibus. 



This I presume would be included in Bridel's new genus 

 Oreasy being allied to the Weissia Mielichoferiana and JV. 

 elongata, which, together with a plant of a very different ap- 

 pearance indeed, {Weissia martiana,) constitute that genus. 

 The habit of all these, with the exception of the last men- 

 tioned species, is similar to that of the Brya ; and the genus 

 Ptychostomwn, with the same habit, and a very imperfect inner 

 peristome, may be considered almost as a connecting link. 



