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nudus, superne dense foliosus, simplex ; folia sicca crispula, 

 humida e basi erecta, patula, carinato-concava, e basi haud 

 latiore oblongo-ligulata, obtusa, apiculata, c. 5,5 mm longa 

 et c. 1,5 mm lata, marginibus erectis, e medio folii ad api- 

 cem argute inaequaliter serratis, nervö basi c. 0,2 mm lato,. 

 infra summum apicem evanido, dorso superne dentibus non- 

 nullis magnis praedito, lamellis usque ad 36, humflibus, e 

 seriebus cellularum duabus vel tribus compositis, cellula 

 marginali caeteris aequimagna, cellulis pellucidis, laxis, ro- 

 tundato-hexagonis, 0,0 2 — 0,0 2 5 mm, basilaribus subrectan- 

 gularibus, omnibus laevissimis; seta vix ultra 1,5 cm älta, 

 crassa, flexuosa, pallide fuscescenti-rubra, theca erecta, com- 

 pressula, asymmetrica, rotundato-ovata, fusca, coUo brevi, 

 crasso, microstoma, gymnostoma; opercnlum conico-subu- 

 latum, curvatulum; calyptra ignota. 



Planta mascula eisdem foemineis similis, bracteis pe- 

 rigonii latissime obovatis, intimis multo minoribus. 



Patria, New Zealand, Middle Island, Pine Hill, prope 

 Dunedin, locis paludosis et in Mt Cargill, locis paludosis 

 (W. Bell). 



Species distinctissima, cum Ps. crisjndo (Hook. fil. Wils.) 

 comparanda, sed theca erecta, rotundato-ovata, gymnostoma 

 prima scrutatione dignoscenda. 



122. Garovaglia Micholitzii Broth. n. sp. 



Dioica; robusta, lutescens, nitida; caidis secundarius 

 usque ad 20 cm altus, flexuosus, dense foliosus, vage ra- 

 mosus, ramis inaequalibus, arcuatis, teretibus, dense foliosis, 

 obtusis; folia horride patula, plicata, concaviuscula, ovalia, 

 apiculata vel acuta, marginibus erectis, apice minutissime 

 serrulatis, nervis obsoletis, cellulis elongatis, augustis, in- 

 crassatis, lumine angustissimo, serpentino, papillosis, inferi- 

 oribus laevibus, basilaribus laxis, fusco-aureis. Caetera 

 ignota. 



Patria. British New Gui nea, Milne Bay, in montibus 

 prope Mita, 2000' (W. Micholit z n. 119), in reg. inf. sinc 

 loco designato (Sir W. Mac Gregor). 



