128 ICONES MUSCORUM. 



THELIA HIRTELLA (Hedw.), Sulliv. 

 Tab. 80. 



Plant.e demisso-csespitantes ; casspitibus densissimis cxtensis 

 fiavesccnti-viridibus. 



Caults 3-10-uncialis, radiculari-tomento obrutus, arete rep- 

 tans saspeque ultra casspitis circuituni longissime porrectus ; 

 ramulis erectis confertissimis brevibus 3 - 5-linearibus tereti- 

 foliosis obtusis. 



Folia dense imbricata, concava, orbiculari-ovata, snbito tenui- 

 acurainata, basi decurrentia, dorso scaberrima, superne margine 

 spinnloso-dentata, inferne lobato-ciliata, ciliis longis sursum cur- 

 vatis plus minus dentatis ; reti e cellnlis ellipticis dorso papilla 

 unica simplici curvula instructis composito ; costa debili ad 

 medium evanescente : perichaetialia numerosa laxa, superiora 

 oblongo-lanceolata, tenuiter acuminata, superne ciliis elongatis 

 dentatis fimbriata. 



Flores masculi adhuc ignoti : feminei copiosissimi, cauligeni. 



Capsula ovato-cylindracea, erecta, symmetrica, leptoderma, 

 microstoma, exannulata ; pedicello 3-4 lineas alto; peristomio 

 duplici, exteriore e dentibus sedecem linearibus albescentibus 

 granulatis remotius prominule articulatis, interiore e membrana 

 angusta truncata ; operculo conico-rostrato, capsula triplo brevi- 

 ore ; calyptra cucullifonni ad capsula; medium descendente ; 

 spores pallidc luteolis diametro 2 5V0 unc - metientibus. 



Thelia niRTELLA (Hedw.), Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 60 ; Sulliv. & Lesqx. 



Muse. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), No. 247. 

 Ptekk;ynani)Kum iiirtellum, Hedw. Sp. Muse. p. 89, t. 18, f. 2-6; Brid. 



Bryol. Univ. 2, p. 188. 

 IIypnim nun i.i.i.I!m, C. Mull. Synop. Muse. 2, p. 468. 

 Hypnum julaceum, etc., Dill. Hist. Muse. p. 322, t. 41, f. 58, pro parte V 



