86 ICONES MUSCORUM 



PLAGIOTHECIUM ELEGANS, Hool: 



Tab. 64. 



Plant.e tenellfB, pallide vel amoene virides, in sicco nitidae. 



Caulis procumbens, complanatus, parce divisus, ramis brevi- 

 biis inajqualibus. 



Folia caulina erecto-patentia, subplaiia, disticha, angiiste 

 ovata, brevius vel longius acuminata, concava, nervo gemello 

 plus minusvc manifesto instructa, cellulis liiiearibus strigeformi- 

 bus basi vix laxioribus, alaribus obsoletis pellucidis basilares 

 aemulantibus ; perieligetialia angusta, e basi ovata longe sensim- 

 que attenuata, inferiora minima. 



Flores dioici ? masculi ignoti, 



Capsula in pedicello subpollicari rufo apice plus minusve in- 

 flexo horizontalis, subpendula, oblonga, coUo subinflata, sicca sub 

 ore dilatato coarctata ; peristomii externi dentibus longis trian- 

 gulari-lanceolatis obtusiusculis, interni integris ciliis ti'ibus 

 asquilougis gracilibus interpositis ; operculo conico subrostellato 

 obtuso ; annulo simplici. 



IIvpNUM elegans, Hook. Muse. Exot. t. 9; Miill. Synop. p. 260; Austin, 

 Muse. Appalach. No. .348. 



Var. TERRESTRE, Liridb. (Aninifid. de IT. elegante'), colore intensius viridi, 

 ramis brcvioribus apice lenissiiue decurvatis, a forma normali diversum. 



Plagiothecium ScHiMPERi, Milde in Raben. Bryothec. Eur. Xo. .588. 

 Pi.AGiOTHECiUM elegans, var. TERRESTRE, Lindb. ; Austin, Muse. Appa- 

 lach. No. 349. 



Hab. Tlie normal form in crevices of shaded rocks, Northern 

 New Jersey and Southern New York, sterile. The variety 

 on tlie ground, in a ravine neai- Pascall. New Jersey, sterile. 

 Aaatin. 



