76 ANTHOCEROS. 
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tudine ubique fere zquali, strato superficiali viridi-punctato, margine 
valde diverso quasi sinuato-denticulato-lacerove ; capsulas subbreviores; 
elateres majores ; sporas tamen subminores. 
Ad oppidum Lamas, a monte supracitato haud remotum, in rivuli arena 
advenit var. brachycarpa ejusdem A. flaventis, colore magis sordido, cap- 
sula quadruplo breviore (10™™ longa); ceteris caracteribus autem cum 
typo bene conveniens. 
2. ANTHOCEROS CALLISTICTUS, Spruce. 
Hab. In lignis fl. Bombonasa irrigatis, supra muscos repens. 
Fr 20 x 5-8; inv. 70x °5; ped 10; caps 30; elat 3-4; spore A.™™, 
Frondes subplanze leeves, virescentes, punctis Intense viridibus consperse, 
suboblonge, ineequaliter lobate denticulato-sinuateeque, enerves tenui- 
usculee, ubique fere equicrasse, margine vix attenuate, cellulis 3-4- 
stratis, superticialibus minoribus firmioribus viridibus, ceeteris multo 
laxioribus pellucidis fere vacuis, subtus parum radicellosz. 
Flores dioici: Q versus loborum apices orti. Involucra subelongata 
subulato-cylindrica curvula, Capsula in pedunculo  subexserto 
longissima involucrum siepe 4plo superans uni- (raro bi-) valvis. 
Columella valida. Elateres elongati, spiré unicé prelata tenui (per- 
fecta tamen) constantes. Spore parvee subglobose muriculate. 
3. ANTHOCEROS SQUAMULIGERUS, Spruce. 
Hab. In monte Pichincha, ad rivulorum saxa, aliis hepaticis immixta. 
Frons 25 x 12™™; squame 0'8-1:0™™ longe; invol 5°0x1°7; ped 25; caps 
30x0°5; elat 0°2; spore 3:™™, 
Frons prostrata viridis, longe obovato-oblonga, crenato-lobulata, carnosa, 
medio 6-8 cellulas crassa, utrinque sensim attenuata, subtus medio 
valde radicellifera, supra (medium versus pracipue) insigniter 
squamuligera, squamulis vix millimetrum longis, forma variis, line- 
aribus, subulatis, raro latioribus et subtriangularibus, integris vel 
varie paucilaciniatis, haud raro 2, 3 vel 4 in unam latam basi con- 
natis, medio 4-6 cellulas crassis, sursum inflexis; cellule frondis 
omnes subconformes, parvulee leptodermes, plerseque nucleo nigres- 
cente linear rotundove farctee. 
Flores dioici: in fronde apicem versus insidentes. Involucrum breve, 
validum, clavato-cylindricum, subpapillosum, inferne 10-12 cellulas, 
apicem versus 5-8 cell. crassum, Pedicellus involucro 5plo longior, 
validus, intus cavus (sporis elateribusque rudimentariis repletus). 
Capsula involucro 6plo longior, linearis, tetragono-prismatica, minute 
papulosa; angulis unisulcis quatuor (nempe 2 ad suturas laterales, 
2 utrinque in valvularum media facie) incrassatis, cellulis rigidis 
opacis bistratis, strato medullari (/) tenui interposito, conflatis. 
Elateres breves incompleti, fibra plana tortave subflexuosa haud heli- 
coidea. Spore majusculee angulari-rotunde, perispermo pellucido 
subleevissimo. 
Fronde squamuligera, involucro carnosissimo, pedunculo longissimo, 
necnon capsule structura peculiari inter congeneres insignis.—A. adscen- 
dens Li. et Ldng., in Australia lecta, fronde squamulosa nostre similis, 
involucra habet brevissima (millimetrum longitudine vix excedentia) 
membranacea campanulata. 
