Musci Exorict.—Browniani. 
GYMNOSTOMUM CAPENSE. 
Gymnostomum caule ramoso stolonifero, foliis undique 
’ “vergentibus secundisque lanceolatis longe acuminatis 
subserratis, seta elongata, capsula spheerica striata, 
operculo conico acuto. (Tas. CLXV. 
Glyphocarpa capensis. Brown im Linn. Trans. v. 12. 
p. 575. 
Has. In Monte Tabulari, Promont. Bone Spei. D. Brown. 
Caules erectiusculi, flexuosi, vage, innovationibus, ut videtur, ra- 
' mosi, ramis spe elongatis, inferne apiceque radicantibus. 
Folia fusco-viridia, plerumque undique vergentia, nunc, ramis, 
secunda, patentia, subsquarrosa, lanceolato-subulata, serrulata, 
obscure reticulata, margine subincrassata, nervo valido, fusce- 
scente, ultra apicem in acumen longum desinente instructa. 
Perichetialia reliquis minora. Seta, ob innovationes, non raro 
lateralis, erecta, flexuosa, vel curvata. Capsula omnino sphe- 
rica, erecta, sulcata, ore nudo. Operculum conico-acutum. 
I exceedingly regret the being obliged to give so unsatisfactory 
and imperfect an account of a moss in many respects so curious 
as is the subject of the present plate*. With very much the 
habit, and altogether the capsule of a Bartramia, there is a naked 
mouth to the capsule, or, as I have observed in one specimen, a 
white annular jagged membrane at the edge, as if in an earlier 
state a membrane might have gone across the whole mouth. My 
specimens are too few, however, and too injured for me to ascer- 
tain this factt. The long creeping branches which strike root 
here and there are very curious. 
Fiz. 1,1, 1, plants, nat. size. Fig. 2, single plant. Fig. 3, 
leaf. Fig. 4, pericheetium and perichatial leaves. ig. 5, cap- 
sule and operculum. Fig. 6, operculum. Fig. 7, capsule show- 
ing its naked mouth.—magn. 
own has noticed this moss in the 12th vol. of the Linnzan Tri 
r ans- 
actions, under the name 0 a capensis ; but, unfortunately, has 
said nothing more about it than that “it has a naked peristome, the sp : 
rical striated capsules, as inflorescence, tramia;” and that with 
ce, 0 
this genus my Hedwigia Humboldtii agrees in its capsule. Upon what 
i ne. 
was entirely destitute of teeth; having, however, a very evident horizontal 
membrane, closing the entire mouth. That plan 
from Bartramia, and placed with this for the present ; from whic 
jm its much larger size, narrower leaves, and constantly quadrate capsule, 
o 
' 
