CRYPTOGAMIA. 149 
Descr. Surculi bi-tipollicares, rarius. divisi, 
assurgentes. olia approximata, ebasila- 
tissima amplexante, lineari-subulata, apice 
acuto recto, margine angustissime involuto 
integerrimo, fere ecarinata, dorso nuda; 
in recenti erecto-patula, levissime incurva, 
siccitate adpressa subsecunda; perigonia- 
la basi latiora, brevia. Sete sesqvipolli- 
cares. Sporangium omnino rectum ovatum, 
quinque-sexangulare, angulis rubicundis di- 
stinctis. | pophysis minuta, 5-6-gona, con- 
fluens. Operculum planiusculum: roste?7o 
.longo, subulato, subcurvulo. Ca/yptra par- 
va. JPeristomium patens. Dentes 64, basi 
connexi, lineares, acuti, erectiusculi. 
Surculi masculi femineis longitudine zeqvales. 
Obs. Distincta species surculis elongatis, fo- 
liis integerrimis, sporahngiis recüs, angu- 
lis exstantibus. 
12. POLYTRICHUM AZezveticum Schleich.: sur- 
culis simplicibus; foliis lineari-subulatis acu- 
mineque brevissimo erecto-incurvis, margine 
.involuto integerrimo, dorso apice obsolete den- 
ticulato;s sporangio subhexagono. — Schleich. 
Cent. 3. n. 16. — 79). 
Hab. in Helvetia, in summis montibus Feen & 
Letschenberg: Schleicher. Y. 
Descr. Surculi unciales & | sesqviunciales, 
simplices, erecti, inferne nudiusculi, super- 
ne dense foliosi. oia e lata amplexanti 
basi, lineari-subulata, acumine brevissimo, 
76) P. helveticum Schleich. tantum synonymon est 
P. sexangularis Fl. sec. Brid. Bryol. Univ. T. Hl. 
p. 146. 
Editor. 
