Muscr Exortec 1.—AWenziesianr. 
LESKEA ERICOIDES, 
Leskeacaule elongato ramoso tereti, foliis arcte imbricatis. 
erectis ovatis subacuminatis striatis enervibus integerri- 
mis, apice recurvo, seta brevi, capsula oblonga erecta 
sulcata, operculo subulato. (Tas. XXVIII.) 
Has, In sinu Dusky Bay dicto, in Nova Zeelandia. D. Menxies, 
791, 
Caules palmares ad spithameum, erecti? (penduli?) subdicho-. 
tome divisi, teretiusculi, Folig flavo-viridia, nitida, undique- 
imbricata, erecta, ovata, subacuminata, enervia, striata, inte-. 
gerrima, apice recuryo, Perichetialia cirea pedicellum arcte 
convoluta, estriata. Sete vix unciam long, flexuose, Cap- 
sula erecta, oblongo-ovata, intense fusca, profunde sulcata. 
Operculum subulatum, vix curvatum, Calyptra dimidiata. 
Peristomium Leskezx, 
I 
In a work on foreign Mosses I think it right, at least for the 
present, to adopt the genus Leskea, though I must again repeat: 
it as my pinion that it is one not founded in ature. The genus. 
™m, 18 now of so vast an extent, that, in cases where the. 
te wae as » it is convenient to have recourse 
such characters as are afforded by the Hedwigian families of 
Hypnum, 
Fig. 1, plant nat size. Fi . ; 
; - Size. Fig. 2, leaf seen in front, Fig.3, ditto 
“e-ges “a a Fig. 4, per icheetium and capsule. Figs 5 , outer 
Or perichetium. Fig. 6, iner leaf of ditto. Fig. 7, opercu- 
im. Fig. 8, teeth te outer peristome. Fig, 9, portion of inner 
