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Planta flavo-viridis, setate liirido-viridis, nitida. Caulis 

 prostratus, vestigiis foliorum et radiculis raris fuscis muiiitus, 

 ramos graciles, 3—5 cm. altos et 1,5 mm. latos emittens, e- 

 rectos, superne arcuatos, obtusiusculos, parce et irregulariter 

 ramulosos, deuse subtereti-foliatos, maxim e indistincte com- 

 planatos, ramulis brevibus, gracilibus. Folia erecta, imbrica- 

 ta, ad basin vix decurrentem minute auriculata, auriculis cauli 

 adpressis, late ovata, abrupte in latissimo et brevi acumine, 

 acuto, angustata, profunde canaliculata, nervö bifurco, plus 

 minusve distincto, infra medium folii dissoluto, margine pia- 

 no, integerrimo, excepto apice summo serrulato; cellutw om- 

 nes Isevissimse, angulares paucEe, parvee, quadratse, fulvte, in- 

 crassatse, ceterse breves, subrhombeee, vix incrassatse, chloro- 

 phylliferee, summae quadrato-rhombete. Perichwtia sat nume- 

 rusa, ad latus convexum rami patentia, parva. Bractew frue- 

 tum paullo superantes, vaginantes, erectse, strictee, late ova- 

 tte, acutee, margiue planse, integerrimse, haud plicatee, ener- 

 ves, cellulis majoribus, laxioribus, elongato-rhombeis. Vagi- 

 nula breviter conica, brunnea, leptodermis, paraphyses copio- 

 sas, longas et pauca pistillidia breviora gerens. Sela vix 0,3 

 mm. älta. Capsula inter bracteas inclusa, ovali-globosa, ore 

 magno, brunneo-purpurea, nitida, sicca rugulosa, valde lepto- 

 dermis, a cellulis parenchjmaticis, paullo incrassatis, contex- 

 ta, stomatibus nullis. Annulus nullus. Peristomii simplicis den- 

 tes 16, longi, angustissime dolabriformes, acuti, a duabus cel- 

 lularum seriebus formati, fragilissimi, rufulo-pallidi, Igevissimi, 

 dense et alte trabeculati. Spori sat magni, brunnei, minutis- 

 sime muriculati. Operculum magnum, brunneum, lougitudine 

 fere capsulse, e basi humiliter conica obliquule et acute api- 

 culatum. Cahjptra? (verisimillime cucullata). — Androecia 

 numerosa, inter perichsetia sparsa, gemmiformia; hractece co- 

 chleariformes , subrotundce, obtusiusculse, margine planse et 

 integerrimse, enerves; antheridia oblonga et paraphjses co- 

 piosse, filiformes, longiores. 



Locus genericus nobis aliquantulum incertus restat, pe- 



