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cm älta, flexuosula, tenuis, pallide fusca, nitidiuscula; theca 

 pondula, oblongo-pyriformis, collo theca breviore, sicca lae- 

 vis, deoperculata sub ore haud constricta, sordide fusca; 

 aimulus 0,10 mm latus, faciliter revolubilis; peristomimn 

 duplex; exostomii dentes c. 0,4 mm longi et c. 0,07 5 mm 

 lati, lutei, apice hyalini, lamellis altis, c. 20; endostomium 

 liberum; procei^sus late perforati; cilia terna, bene evoluta, 

 longe appendiculata; sjjori 0,oi5 — 0,oi8 mm, lutescenti- 

 virides laeves; o^perculum cupulatum, acute apiculatum. 



Patria. New Zealand, Mt Alfred 4—5000', in fissuris 

 rupium siccarum (W. Bell). 



Species Br. himo Schreb. simillima, sed inflorescentia 

 dioica jani dignoscenda. 



119. Bryum (Eubryum) austro-pallescens Broth. n. sp. 



Antoicum; caespitosum, caespitibus denslusculis, 2 — 3 

 cm altis, viridibus vel lutescenti-viridibus, haud nitidis; cau- 

 lls erectus, fusco-tomentosus, apice dense foliosus, innova- 

 tionibus singulis vel binis, usque ad 1,5 cm altis, gracilibus, 

 inferne laxiuscule, apice dense foliosis; /o^/a caiilina qvqqXo- 

 patentia, carinato-concava, oblongo-lanceolala, nervö ex- 

 cedente aristata, marginibus fere ad apicem valde revolutis, 

 integris, limbata, limbo lutescentc, 3 — 5-seriato, nervö ru- 

 fescente, in aristam longam, strictam, integram producto, 

 cellulis rhomboideo-hexagonis, basilaribus subrectangulari- 

 bus, infimis vinose rubentibus, innovatiomim eisdem caulinis 

 similia; hracteae perichaetii intimae minutae, lanceolatae, 

 acuminatae; seta usque ad 4 cm älta, flexuosula, apice 

 cygnea, tenuis, rubra, nitidiuscula; theca pendula, oblongo- 

 pyriformis, c. 4 mm longa, collo sporangio breviore, sicca 

 laevis, deoperculata sub ore haud constricta, pallide fusca; 

 annulus duplex, 0,io mm ktus, faciliter revolubilis; peri- 

 stomium duplex; exostomii deates c. 0,5 5 mm longi et c. 

 0,07 5 ram lati, lutei, apice hyalini, papillosi, lamellis 20 — 25; 

 endostommni liberum, sordide lutescens, papillosum; processiia 

 carinati, late perforati; cilia terna, bene evoluta, appendi- 

 culata; spori vix ultra 0,oi5 mm, lutescenti-virides, laeves; 

 opercuhim convexo-conicum, acute apiculatum. 



