Muscti ExorTict.—AMenziesiani. 
LEUCODON LAGURUS. 
Leucodon caule erecto tomentoso ramoso, foliis imbri- 
catis ovatis concavis acuminulatis enervibus, capsula 
erecta cylindracea, operculo acuminato. (Tas. 
CXXVI.) 
Hypnum lagurum. Menzies MSS. 
Has. In insula Staten Land dicta, prope Cape Horn. D. Men- 
zies, 1787. 
Caules cxspitosi, inferne tomento ferrugineo obsiti, ramosi, ra- 
mis erectis, cylindraceis. Folia undique imbricata, erecta, fla- 
vescentia, nitida, ovata, valde concava, integerrima, enervia, 
apice in acumen breve piliforme desinentia. Perichetialia 
circa caulis basin convoluta, lanceolata, apice subrecurva. 
Seta lateralis, 4 ad 6 lineas longa. Capsula erecta, cylindra- 
cea, flavo-fusca. Operculum acuminatum, subobliquum. Ca- 
lyptra dimidiata, flavescens. Peristomium simplex, dentibus, 
e membrana paulo ultra Ss iets marginem exserta, 16, filifor- 
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mibus, pallide fl til git liter striatis, ad basin 
usque fissis, segmentis eeiciia. 
Widely differing in shape as the leaves of this species do from 
those of Leucodon tomentosus, there yet isa close affinity be- 
tween the two plants, and it is the more satisfactory to find how 
nearly their peristomes agree together. ‘The present plant is 
very beautiful, of a bright shining yellow colour in the leaves, 
while the lower parts of the stem are covered with a ferruginous 
down, 
Fig. 1, 1, 1, plants, mat. size. Fig. 2, single plant. Fig. 3, 3, 
leaves. Fig. 4, 4, perichetialleaves. Fig. 5, capsule. Fig. 6, 
operculum. Fig. 7, calyptra.—magn. 
