Musc: ExoTicit.Schmidtiani. 
HEDWIGIA SCHMIDTII. 
Hedwigia caule procumbente ramoso, foliis undique im- 
bricatis erectis ovato-acuminatis striatis integerrimis 
enervibus, capsula globosa, operculo subulato. (Tas. 
CLXX.) 
Has. In sylvis umbrosis prope Laguna truncos et ramos arbus- 
torum vestiens. Teneriffe. .D. Prof. Schmidt, 1815. 
Caules digitales et ultra, procumbentes, flexuosi, vage ramosi, 
ramis attenuatis. Folia undique imbricata intense atro-viridia, 
superiora pallidiora, omnia dense imbricata, erecta, ovato- 
acuminata, integerrima, enervia, longitudinaliter striata, mar- 
ginibus reflexis. Perichetialia insigniter convoluta, exteriora 
minora, late ovata, subacuminata; interiora prelonga, magis 
acuminata. Seéa lateralis, sesquiunciam longa, flexuosa, rufo- 
fusca. Capsula exacte spherica, erecta, ore contracto, ‘in- 
tus membrana annulari alba. Operculum longirostrum, cur- 
vatum. . 
The annular membrane within the mouth of the capsule of this 
moss ticed t y its | ted di overer Dr. Christian Schmidt, 
and it is very obvious in all the specimens which I possess. “ In- 
ter 1000 specimina (he further remarks) unicum modo calyptra- 
tum et operculatum detegere potui ;” but that calyptra, repre- 
sented on the left hand specimen, is in too young a state to al- 
Jow of my determining the exact figure of it. In habit this moss _ 
accords very satisfactorily both with Hedwigia Humboldtii and 
H1, secunda, though it is still nearer perhaps to Leucodon sciu- 
roides, a oe 
Fig. 1, 1, plants, mat, size. Fig. 2, 2, leaves. Fig. 3, peri- 
ee chetium, Fig. 4, outer leaf of perichetium, Fig. 5, inner ditto. 
Fig. 6, operculum. Fig, 7, capsule.—magn, 
