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haud decurrentia; infima ovali-cuspidata, margine plana vel brevi 

 spatio anguste recurva, limbo paullum effigurato instructa, costa 

 in apice dissoluta; media ovato-ovalia, satis cito in cuspidem medio - 

 crem superne costa excurrente formatam angustata, 2 mm. longa, 

 0.7 — 0.8 mm. lata, margine latiuscule revoluto integra, limbata, 

 superne carinata, basi vinoso-rubentia ; summa angustiora, ovato- 

 lanceolata, limbo subnullo; cellulæ mediocriter incrassatæ, parieti- 

 bus transversis sæpe pertusis, basales mediæ rectangulæ, ad 0.08 

 mm. longæ et 0.02 mm. latæ, angulares utrinque pæne folium 

 dimidium occupantes, inflatæ, tenues, quadratæ vel breviter rect- 

 angulæ, 0.045 mm. latæ; illæ folii superioris rhomboideæ — hex- 

 agono-rhomboideæ, 0.034—0.06 mm. longæ, 0.017 — 0.021 mm. 

 latæ, marginales longiores, angustiores, crassiores, limbum 4- 

 seriaturn efformantes; costa basi ca. 0.085 mm, lata et rubra, 

 ceterum viridi-fusca, in aristam mediocrem strictam ætate sæpe 

 fractam excurrens, subteres, cellulis ventralibus 3 — 4, ducibus toti- 

 dem, grege comitum, fasciculo magno stereidearum, cellulis dorsa- 

 libus ca. 12 composita. 



Folia innovationum a caulinis vix diversa. 



Folia perichætialia intima ovato-lanceolata, costa crassa excur- 

 rente longiuscule cuspidata, plana, haud limbata. 



Infiorescentia synoica; antheridia pauca, 0.4 mm. longa, 0.1 

 mm. crassa; pistillidia pauUo numerosiora, 0.5 mm. longa; para- 

 physes copiosæ, luteolæ. 



Vaginula ovato-ovalis, 0.64 mm. longa, 0.38 mm. crassa, 

 purpureo-rubra. 



8eta 1.5 cm. longa, basi 0.18 mm., apice 0.15 mm. crassa. 

 leniter flexuosa, apice hamata, rubra, superne lutescens. 



Capsula pendula, deoperculata sicca 1.6 mm. longa, 0.8 mm. 

 crassa, e collo obconico plicato vix contracto 0.65 mm. longo ovalis, 

 sub orificio haud vel levissime angustata, leptodermis, rugulosa, 

 fusco-rubra,opaca; cellulæ epidermicæ coUiisodiametricæ, 0.035—0.05 

 mm. latæ; stomata subrotunda, diametro ca. 0.042 mm. magna, 

 poro elliptico ; illæ sporangii quadratæ — rectangulæ — rotundatæ, 

 ca. 0.038 mm. latæ, orificium versus in pluribus seriebus angusti- 



