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EcTROPOTHECIUM VESICULARE (Schwaegr.) Mitt. 
Hypnum vesiculare Schwaegr. Sp. Musc. Frond. Suppl. 2: 167, 
pl. 199. 1827; C. Mill. Syn. 2: 235 (sect. Omalia sub- 
sect. Vesicularia) (syn. Hookeria praelonga Walk. Arnott excl.) 
1851. ; 
Leskia (Omalia) rutilans Brid. Bryol. Univ 2: 332 (var. portori- 
censis excl.) 1827. 
Hypnum rutilans (Brid.) C. Mill. Syn. 2: 234 (sect. Omala 
subsect. Vesécularia) (habitat. quibusdam_probabiliter excl.) 
1851. 
Ectropothecium vesiculare (Schwaegr.) Mitt. Musc. Austr.-Amer. 
518 (synon. et habitat. peruvianis excl.) 1869 ; Jaeger, Adumbr. 
2: 534 (habitat. peruv. excl.) 1879; Paris, Index Bryol. 
89 (syn. et habitat. quibusdam excl.) 1895. 
£. rutilans (Brid.) Mitt. Muse. Austr.-Amer. 519 (habitat. quibus- 
dam probabil. excl.) 1869; Jaeger, Adumbr. 2 / 538 (habitat. 
quibusdam prob. excl.) 1879; Paris, Index Bryol. 86 (habitat. 
quibusdam prob. excl.) 1895. 
Vesicularia malachitica C. Mill. Hedwigia, 37: 251. 1898. 
Ectropothecium malachiticum (C. Mill.) Paris, Index Bryol. Suppl. 
I: 136. 1900, 
€curvo margine integro vel in folii apice minutissime denticulato 
cellulis laxis pellucidis superioribus hexagonis circ. 30-40 x 22- 
25 #, foliis caulinis ventralibus minoribus e basi lata oblonga vel 
Subquadrata concava acuminatis acumine plus minus recurvo ten- 
erius areolatis, foliis rameis dorsalibus et lateralibus confertis sub- 
distichis planiuscule compressis patentibus siccitate plus minus 
Crispulis ovatis vel late ovatis interdum rotundato-ovatis breviter 
¢t abrupte acuminatis interdum apiculato-acuminatis basi saepe 
Maequalibus praeter apicem summum ‘minutissime denticulatum 
