rCONES MUSCOUUM. 141 



HOMALOTHECIUM SUBCAPILLATUM, Schimp. 



Tab. 90. 



Plants tenellas, intricato-CEespitosae, magnitudinc ac vegetandi 

 modo Pylaisceas prsecedentes valde referentes. 



Caulis prostratus, subuncialis, vage divisus; ramis ramulisque 

 brevibus numerosis adscendentibus subtereti-foliosis. 



Folia undique erecto-patentia, baud conferta, imbricantia, 

 concava, ovalia vel subobovata, repentine longius tenui-acumina- 

 ta, margine anguste subrecurva serrato-dentata ; costa ad medium 

 evanescente; reti e cellulis rhomboideo-ellipticis, illis angulorum 

 numerosis quadratis : perichsetialia interiora vaginantia, oblonga, 

 sensim longe acuminata, apice dentata. 



Flores dioici cauligeni : masculi gemmacei ; antheridiis para- 

 pby satis. 



Capsula cylindraceo-oblonga, plus minusve incurva, in pedi- 

 cellum 4 - 5-linearem scabrum (in icone false laevem delineatum) 

 defluens ; vaginula pilis e pericbaetio longe eminentibus obsita ; 

 perist. ext. dentibus longiusculis sublinealibus dense articulatis 

 basi confluentibus linea divisuriali flexuosa notatis cuticulaque 

 dorsali late hyalino-marginatis, perist. int. membrana tenuissima 

 obscura dentibus adbserente, operculo e basi alte convexo-conico 

 longius rostrato ; calyptra dimidiata ad mediam capsulam de- 

 scendente pilis raris longiusculis instructa. 



Homalothecium subcapillatum, Schimp. Bryol. Univ. ; Sulliv. Mosses 



U. States, p. 63, t. 5. 

 Pterigynandrum subcapillatum, Hedw. Sp. Muse. p. 83, t. 16, f. 9-12, 

 Pterogonium decumbens, Schwaegr. Suppl. t. 110. 

 Pterogonium ascendens, Schwjegr. op. cit. t. 243. 

 Hypnum subcapillatum, C. Miill. Synop. Muse. 2. p. 352. 



