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MACROMITUIUM DREGEI, Homsch. 



Tab. 37. 



Plants acrocarpicae vcl innovatione pleurocarpicae, intricato- 

 casspitosa; ; caespitibus extensis laxis rigidulis rufo-fuscis. 



Caulis 2-3 uncias longus, procumbens ; ramis asccndentibus 

 innovando-ramulosis subjulaceis gracilibus. 



Folia conferta, erecto-patentia, sicca arete imbricata, ovato- 

 lanceolata, sensim acuminata, papillulosa, media basi profunde 

 excavata, e cellulis subrotundis densius areolata, fere ad apicem 

 usque carinato-costata, alis leniter recurvis. 



Flores monoici : masculi terininales vel axillares, gemmaceas ; 

 perigonialibus externis ovatis, internis obovatis apiculatis hya- 

 linis runs superne eroso-dentatis ; antheridiis et paraphysibus 

 numerosis. 



Capsula elliptico-cylindracea, in pedicello 3-4-lineari erecta, 

 sicca basi oreque plicata ; peristomio simplici (externo defici- 

 ente) e membrana truncata breviter emergente exstructo ; oper- 

 culo erecto conico-subulato ; calyptra pilosa capsulam totam 

 tegente. 



Macromitrixjm Dregei, Hornsch. in Linnsea 1841, p. 131 ; Sulliv. Mosses 

 U. States, p. 31 ; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsiec. (ed. 1), 

 No. 128. 



Hab. On the bark of old pine trees, top of Yonah or Bear 

 Mountain, Georgia, Lesquereux. 



We have not seen authenticated specimens of Hornschuch's 

 M. Dreg-ei from the Cape of Good Hope, and in thus referring 

 our species we rely solely on his description, and on the note- 

 worthy fact that it (as well as two other species from the South- 

 ern United States, viz. Anomodon Toccoce and Bruchia brevipes) 

 cocurs also at the Cape (fide Herb. Taylor). 



