1-t) ICONES MITSCORUM. 



CLASMATODON PARVULUS (Hampe), Hook, fr Wils. 



Tab. 79. 



Plants tenellae, depresso-ctespitosae ; casspitibus plus minusve 

 extensis intricatis e flavescenti-viridibus subnitidis. 



Caulis tcnuissimus, repens, subpinnatim vel irregulariter ra- 

 mosus ; ramis ramulisque ut plurimum assurgentibus. 



Folia laxius dcnsiusve imbricantia, erecto- vel subsquarroso- 

 patentia, concava, elongato-ovata, brevius acuminata, superne 

 lenissime serrulata, inferno margine recurva, ad medium unicos- 

 tata, elliptico-areolata ; cellulis ad baseos angulos subquadratis : 

 perichsetialia elongato-lanceolata, erecta, subvaginantia, ecostata, 

 laxius texta. 



Flores monoici : masculi gemmacei, axillares. 



Capsula minuta, oblongo-ovalis, in pedicello vix bilineari erec- 

 ta, leptoderma ; peristomio simplici normaliter 16-dentato, den- 

 tibus flavescentibus valde irregularibus fragilibus basi dorsali 

 nonnunquam processu uno alterove squamiformi brevissimo in- 

 structis plerumque 1-2-fissis, cruribus inaequalibus granulatis 

 remote nodoso-geniculato-articulatis ; annulo magno e cellula- 

 rum serie tri - quadruplici composito persistente vel frustula- 

 tim discedente intensius colorato ; operculo conico longius obli- 

 que rostrato ; calyptra dimidiata. 



Clasmatodon parvulus, (Hampe,) Hook. & Wils.; Sulliv. Mosses U. 



States, p. 60, t. 5 ; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), No. 



246. 

 Clasmatodon PUSiLLUS, Hook. & Wils. in Drumm. Muse. Amer. Coll. 2, 



No. 80 ; & in Lond. Jour. Bot. 1842, p. 421, t. 25 ; Sulliv. Muse. Alleghan. 



No. 80. 

 LE8KEA pahvula, Hampe in Linnaea, 13, p. 46. 

 Rhegmatodon parvulus, Hampe, Icon. Muse. t. 14. 

 Hypnum parvulum. C. Mull. Synop. Muse. 2, p. 409. 



Var. rupestris ; caespite densiore, statura paulo majore, ramis 



