Muscti Exortict.—Browniani. 
LESKEA SCIUROIDES. 
Leskea caule decumbente, ramis compressis curvatis, 
foliis undique insertis patulis ovato-acuminatis ser- 
rulatis substriatis enervibus, seta breviuscula, capsula 
oblonga erecta sulcata. (Tas. CLXXV.) 
Has, In Insula Van Diemen. D. R. Brown. 
Caules tri-quadriunciales, inferne procumbentes, apicibus ra- 
misque insigniter curvatis, compressis. Folia undique inserta, 
flavo-viridia, nitida, patula, ovato-acuminata, paululum flex- 
uosa, mollia, submembranacea, margine apicem versus preci- 
pue serrata, enervia sed paululum striata. Seta brevis, vix 
unciam longa, erecta. Capsula erecta, oblonga, pallide fusca, 
longitudinaliter sulcata, Peristomium imperfectum. Calyptra 
operculumque desunt. 
This moss, without having any one particularly striking fea- 
ture, is not likely, that 1 know of, to be confounded with any 
other. The fruit is small for the size of the plant, and the cap- 
sule is, like that of Leskea sulcata, strongly furrowed. The teeth 
are very much injured, so that it is by habit alone that I guess at 
its genus. 
Fig. 1, plant, nat. size. Fig. 2, portion of a stem with leaves, 
Fig. 3, single leaf. Fig. 4, capsule,—magn. 
