Muse: Exoricti.—Humboldtiant. 
NECKERA LONGIROSTRIS. 
Neckera, caule erecto bipinnato, ramis attenuatis, fo- . 
- liis planis distichis ovatis acutis serratis, nervo prope 
medium evanescente, operculo longirostro, recto. 
(Tas. I.) : : 
Has. regione temperata,: in jugis Andium. Humboldt et Bon- 
pland. 
Radix repens, hic illic dense tomentosa. Caulis bi- tri-uncialis, 
erectus, inferne simplex, superne pinnatim divisus, pinnis ite- 
rum sepe pinnatis, attenuatis. Folia (f. 2) flavo-viridia, 
bifaria, disticha, patentia, verticalia, ovata, acuta, apicem ver- 
sus serrata, nervo satis distincto prope medium evanescente 
instructa, terminalia magis angusta atque acuminata (f. 3). 
Perichetialia (f. 4) subulato-lanceolata, integerrima, sub- 
enervia, basi imbricata, apicibus squarroso-patentibus. Sete 
quandoque Solitarie, sepe tres ad sex ex eodem caule, versus 
ejus medium inserte, subbiunciales, erecta, flexuose. Capsula 
ovata, erecta. Operculum (f.5) rostratum, rostro recto, cap- 
sula subeque longo. Peristomii dentes ext. erecti, longius- 
culi, striati, rubri : iné. angusti, fere filiformes, nerfurati, flavi, 
e membrana reticulata, brevi orti. 
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Among the Neckere none of the hitherto described species 
will accord with that here figured, nor will any of those belonging 
to Leskea, a genus to which it has an almost equal claim. 
The plant of all others to which it approaches the nearest in 
general habit, is doubtlessly Climacium dendroides (Hypnum 
nobis); and even in its peristome it is not far removed, for the 
teeth of the inner fringe are perforated, but not so remarkably 
as in that plant; and the columella, it may be observed, is not at 
all exserted. 
Fig. 1, 1. Plants nat. size, The rest of the figures are more 
or less magnified, : : 
