ICONES MUSCORUM. 159 



HYPNUM OAKESII, Sulllv. 



Tab. 102. 



Plants raajores, in caespitibus depresso-tumescentibus late 

 longeque extensis e viridi lutescentibus degentcs. 



Caulis 3-4-uncialis, innovationibus arcuatis annuatim repeti- 

 tis continiians, remote irregulariter subpinnato-ramulosus; ramis 

 et ramulis compressiuscule foliosis. 



Folia caulina late ovata, patentia, baud conferta ; ramea ra- 

 mulinaque nitida, laxe incumbentia, erecto-patentia, subelliptico- 

 oblonga, plus minus distincte complanata; omnia concava,brevius 

 longiusve acuminata, margine usque ad apicem fere recurva, 

 superne irregulariter grosse serrata, ad medium tenui-costata, 

 minute lineari-hexagono-areolata, plus minusve sulcato-striata ; 

 paraphylliis numerosis ramosissimis : perichsetialia ecostata, ad 

 medium erecto-vaginantia, dehinc squarroso-reflexa, longe at- 

 tenuata, argute serrata. 



Flores dioici : femineis cauligenis haud numerosis ; masculis 

 ad ramorum basin ; antheridiis copiose paraphysatis. 



Capsula in pedicello lo'ngo tenui superne arcuato turgide 

 gibboso-ovata, pachyderma, deorsum spectans, vix annulata ; 

 peristomii dentibus basi confluentibus e lineali subulatis dense 

 articulatis, ciliis in carina hie illic hiantibus, ciliolis 2-4 longis ; 

 operculo convexo-conico cum rostro brevi. 



Hypnum Oakesii, Sulliv. in Gray, Man. Bot. p. 673 (1848), & Mem. Amer. 



Acad. n. ser. 4, p. 173, t. 5; C. Mull. Synop. 2, p. 461. 

 Hypnum fimbriatum, Hartm. Scand. Flora (1849) ; C. Mull. Synop. 2, 



p. 461. 

 Hypnum Pyrenaicum, Spruce in Ann. Nat. Hist. 3, p. 129, t. 1 (1849); 



C. Mull. Synop. 2, p. 456. 

 Hylocomium fimbriatum, Bryol. Europ. t. 489. 

 Hylocomium Oakesii, Schimp. Synop. Muse. Europ. p. 654. 



Hab. White Mountains of New Hampshire, Oakes, James. 



