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marginem versus sensim longiores et angustiores , pauUo cras- 

 siores, ut fiat limbus haud bene definitus, ex seriebus cellularum 

 3 — 4 , superne ex una compositus. Costa longe decurrens, 

 demum nigricans, ad basin O.l mm. crassa, sensim attenuata et 

 in cuspidem brevem lævem excurrens , facie ventrali plana, 

 dorsali convexa et valde prominens; cellulæ ejus ventrales 2— 4, 

 sæpe pæne mamillosæ, duces 4 ejusdem magnitudinis vel paullo 

 minores, comités satis numerosi, fasciculo magno stereidearum 

 pæne inclusi, cellulæ dorsales ca. 12, majores vel minores, 

 turgidæ. 



Folia perichætialia intima ovato-triangula, margine anguste 

 reflexa, male limbata, costa cum apice desinente. 



Inflorescentia synoica ; antheridia et pistilUdia pauca, illa 

 0.22 mm. longa et 0.06 mm. crassa, hæc 0.4 mm. longa; para- 

 phijses numerosiores, colore diluto squalido imbuta. 



Vagimda conica, 0.3 mm. longa et 0.09 mm. crassa, atro- 

 violacea. 



Seta ca. 2 mm. longa, 0.17mm. crassa, nitida, rigidula, 

 rubro-lutea, apice hamato pallidior, superne in spiram aliquam 

 sinistram versus ascendentem contorta. 



Capsula nutans — pendula, rubro-fusca, rugulosa, curvula, 

 deoperculata 1.5mm. longa et 0.64 mm. crassa, elliptica vel 

 elliptico-clavata, sub orificio vulgo leniter contracta; coUum 

 0.67 mm. longum, profunde sulcatum, epidernlide e cellulis ali- 

 quantum irregularibus, plurimis subquadratis, 0.035 mm. longis 

 latisque formata, stomatibus satis numerosis ovalibus — sub- 

 rotundis, 0.042 — 0.045 mm. longis et 0.037—0.042 mm. latis, more 

 generis partim supra cellulas contiguas positis, rima lineari — 

 elliptica; sporangium 0.83mm. longum, crasse ovale, orificio 

 pauUum obliquo, exothecii cellulæ ob parietes valde undulatos 

 admodum irreguläres, mediocriter incrassatæ, marginales in 

 seriebus 2 — 3 latiores quam longiores, ut transverse rectangulo- 

 hexagonæ. 



Exostomii dentes remoti, e fundo aurantio 0.08 mm. alto 



