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LESKEA DENTICULATA, Sulliv. 



Tab. 78. 



Plants tenelloe, caespitulos nitidos hete virides formantes. 



Caulis subuncialis, repcns, divisus, radiculosus, vage ramosus ; 

 ramis ramulisque compressiuscule foliosis. 



Folia conferta, subcomplanata, undique vergentia vel subsc- 

 cunda, elliptico-lanceolata, brevius tenui-acuminata, tota margine 

 denticulata, concava, ecostata, pcllucida, amoene areolata ; areo- 

 lis minutissimis oblongis, illis angulorum subquadratis. 



Flores dioici ? masculi ignoti. 



Capsula ovali-oblonga, in pedicello 2-4-lineari erecta, exan- 

 nulata ; peristomii dentibus lineali-lanceolatis remotius articu- 

 latis, interni ciliis dentes fere sequantibus latiusculis in carina 

 hiantibus, ciliolis omnino nullis ; operculo e basi alte conica 

 longius brevinsve rostrato ; calyptra cuculliformi majuscula. 



Leskea denticulata, Sulliv. Muse. Alleghan. No. 62 ; Mosses U. States 



p. 59 ; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsice. (ed. 1), No. 245. 

 Hypnum fabroni^efolium, C. Miill. Synop. 2, p. 271. 



Hab. Base of trees, Middle and Southern States. — Not un- 

 common, but very seldom in fruit. 



TAB. 78. — Leskea denticulata. 



1 . Plant je naturali magnitudine. 8, 9. Sectiones transversales folii. 



2. Planta capsuligera. 10, 11. Perichaetium, folia, etc. 



3. Pars rami. 12. Vaginula, archegonia, et paraphyses. 



4. 5, 6. Folia ejusdem. 13, 14, 15. Capsular. 

 7. Folium areolationem exhibeus. 16, 17. Opereula. 



