ICONES MUSCORUM. 77 



CLIMACIUM? RUTHENICUM, Weinm. 



Tab. 58. 



Plants elataj, iiifenie simplices, apice in comam amcene viri- 

 dem subdeiidroideam lateralem divisje, 



Caulis primariiis longe et late repens, subterraneus, radiculo- 

 sus, iiigricaiis; rami primarii erecti, remoti, bipollicares et ultra, 

 inferne simplices, superne fasciculatim divisi, briinneo-nitentes ; 

 rami secundarii erectiusculi, pinnatim vel bipinnatim divisi ; ra- 

 muli graciles, attenuati, fdiformes. 



Folia in ramis primariis squamfeformia, late ovata, plus mi- 

 nusve apiculata, involuta, integerrima, hyalina, amplexicaulia, 

 enervia vel valde nervosa ; in ramis secundariis undique imbri- 

 cata, erecto-patula, e basi latiuscula lanceolata, a medio usque 

 ad apiceni crebre serrata, utplurimum bistriata, nervo valido 

 crasso obscure colorato versus apicem dentato infra apicem 

 evanido instriicta ; ' pericha^tialia imbricata, e basi late ovata 

 longius cuspidata, margine superne imdulata vel erosa. 



Flores dioici : masculi numerosi, in parte superiori rami 

 primarii sparsi, axillares, subsessiles ; feminei sub comam fasci- 

 culatim aggregati ; antheridiis parapliysibusque numerosis. 



Capsula in pedicello pallide rubello ultrapollicari recto lata, 

 cernua et horizontalis, oblongo-cylindrica, incurva, collo sub- 

 inflata, exannulata, late operculata ; operculo conico elongato 

 acuto; peristomii externi dentibus longis triangulari-lanceolatis 

 hjalino-marginatis a basi usque ad apicem dense aequaliter 

 trabeculatis ; interni ciliis dentes sequantibus latiusculis inter 

 articulationes distincte solutis. 



Hypxum Ruthknicum, Weinm. Bull. Soc. Imp. Moscow, 1845, p. 485. 

 Climacium (Girgensohnia) Ruthenicum, Lindb. in litt. 



Hab. Sitka, Alaska, Bishoff. 



