Muscr Exorici.—Gardneriani. 
, LYELLIA CRISPA, 
Gen. Cuar. Stoma edentulum, clausum epiphragmate 
(crasso depresso) cujus discus ctrcularis a limbo (la- 
tiori) persistente secedens, cum columella remanenti 
inclusa coheret. Capsula hinc plana, inde convexa. 
Calyptra cucullata (apice pilosa). Br. (Tas. CLXI.) 
Lyellia crispa. Brown in Linn. Trans. v.12. p.562. 
Has. Nepaul, Indie Orientalis. Hon. D. Gardner 
Radix tomentosa, fusea. Caulis 3—4-pollicaris fere ad palma- 
rem, simplex, erectus, flexuosus, superne precipue foliosus, 
Folia undique vergentia e basi late ovata, membranacea, vagi- 
nantia, pallide fusca, longe lineari-subulata, rigida, fuseo-viri- 
dia, flexuosa, siccitate torta, dorso convexa, supra plana, mar- 
gine pallidiore, argute serrata, nervo, totam fere paginam oc- 
cupante, striato, oculo bene armatolamellato, percursa. Seta 
terminalis, biuncialis, rufescens, nitens. Capsu/a paululum 
reclinata, ovata, dorso convexo rufo-fusco, basi paululum gib- 
bosa, punctis oblongis majusculis perforata ; facie superna plana, 
flavo-fusca, marginata, collo perbrevi cylindraceo; ore, cap- 
sula multo angustiore, omnino clauso epiphragmate crasso 
depresso, pallide fusco, “ipso centro circulari plano, crassius- 
culo, fusco, a disco pallido mox separante, arcte cum columella 
coherenti, eaque demum abbreviata intra cavitatem retracto,”” 
r Membrana interior exteriori applicata, corrugata. 
Columella crassa plicis rugosa. Calyptra parva, dimidiata, 
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pallide fusea, apice hispidula. 
I willingly change, at the request of Mr. Brown, a desire I had 
ame another moss in honour of Mr. Lyell, in or- 
our excellent friend a genus of which it is 
y doubt should be entertained, and which is 
so long as the study of nature shall continue 
impossible that an 
sure to be retained 
to be cultivated. 
figured. Mr. Brown has in 
Transactions written so 
~ Fig. | & 2, sterile and fertile plants, nat. size. Fig. 3, 3, 
‘ig. 5, capsule. Fig 
. Fig. 8, verti 
show the substance of the peristome, the internal 
Fig. 9, calyptra, nat. size. Fig. 
and 9, more or less magn. 
Von, IL. 
