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0.33 mm. longa, O.l mm. crassa; pistillidia 3 — 10, 0.5 mm. longa; 

 paraphyses paucæ, lineares. 



Vaginida purpurea, crasse ovata, 0.6 mm. longa, 0.36 mm. 

 crassa. 



Seta 2 — 3 cm. longa, 0.16 mm. crassa, luteo-rubra, rigidiu- 

 scula vel subflexuosa. 



Capsula nutans, raro pendula, deoperculata 2.1 mm. longa, 

 1 mm. crassa ; coUum 0.75 mm. longum, fuscescens, contractum, 

 plicatum, cellulis epidermicis 0.033 mm. latis, quadratis — breviter 

 rectangulis, stomatibus ovalibus, 0.044 mm. longis, 0.03 mm. latis, 

 poro ovali ; sporangium ovato-cylindricum , sub orificio baud 

 angustatum, rubro-luteum, læve, opacum, cellulis epidermicis 

 irregulariter quadratis — rotundatis — subrectangulis, ca. 0.033 mm. 

 latis, parietibus mediocriter incrassatis flexuosis, submarginalibus 

 subquadratis, marginalibus in una serie paullo latioribus quam 

 longiores. 



Exostomii dentes siccitate dimidio inferiore erecti, superiore 

 horizonlaliter inflexi, e fundo aurantio 0.04 mm. alto trianguli, 

 ut subæqualiter angustati, 0.38 mm. longi, 0.07 mm. lati, lutei, 

 apice luteoli, latiuscule tenui-limbati ; scutula rectangula, ad 

 basin 0.014 mm. alta, subtiliter punctulata, suturis bene conspi- 

 cuis, mediana parum angulata; lamellae ca. 22, humiles, ad 

 lalera baud excurrentes, normaliter evolutæ vel sporadice con- 

 junctæ vel nonnunquam margine libero medio impressæ , stratum 

 ventrale lineis irregularibus lateraliter delimitatum, secus lineam 

 medianam dentis inferioris inter lamellas foraminibus rotundis 

 minutis pertusum. Endostomium liberum, lutescens; membrana 

 punctulata, 0.14 mm. alta, processus anguste lanceolati, papillosi, 

 secus carinam fenestris ovalibus pertusi, cilia nulla vel rudi- 

 mentaria, unum alterumve longum appendiculisque longiusculis 

 instructum. 



Annulus triplex, 0.13 mm. altus, spiraliter dissiliens. 



Operculum 0.64 mm. latum, 0.4 mm. altum, convexum. 



