Grimaldia. franz stephani. species hepaticarum. 793 



Carpocephala plus minus longe pedunculata, pedimculus e fundo nudo 

 orlus, basi paucis paleis armatus, apice pro more nudus, compressus, 

 varie humiliterque costatus, canali parvo subcylindrico percursus; capitula 

 parva vertice rotundata, stomatis humilibus, normahter quadriloba. Invo- 

 lucra parum divergentia, ore integerrimo. Capsulx cellula? basales 

 tenerce 17 X 68 [x, annuh 25 X 23 [i opercuh valida^ S5 X 68 (i. Sporae 

 60 [1, brunnecB alte papulosse. Elateres concolores, tenues 170 [jl longi. 

 Andrcecia in fronde repetita, saBpe regulariter seriata vel in soros pius 

 minus regulares aggregala. 



Hab. Germania, Tirol. Gallia austr. (Montagne). Grxcia (Heldreich), 

 Portugal (Moller), Algeria (Trabut), Abyssinia (Schimper, Schweinfurth), 

 Tenerifa (Aurel Krause), Madeira (Fritze), Insulse Canarienses (De la 

 Perrandiere), Himalaya, Chitral (Harris) et Ralan Valley (DuLliie), Caii- 

 casus (Brotherus). 



/^2, G. capensis St. n. sp. 



Monoica, minor, fusco-viridis, postice subatra. Frons usque ad 15 mm. 

 longa, 2 mm. lata, linearis, parum ramosa, crassa, fragilisque, postice 

 valde convexa, longe rhizifera, antice plana, marginibus attenuatis 

 adscendentibus. Stratum anticum anguste cavernosum, stomata parum 

 elevata, minima, 6 cellulis parvis biseriatis formata. Cellulee epider- 

 midis maxime incrassatse, trigonis magnis, ssepe confluentibus. Squamde 

 posticse magnse, imbricatse, oblique semilunatse, apice breviter bifidee, 

 laciniis anguste lanceolatis, sinu lato acuto discretis, flexuosis, parvicellu- 

 laribus, interdum cellula prominente paucidentatis. Androecia in fronde 

 feminea repetita, antheridiis biseriatis, alternantibus, ostiolis parvis, 

 nudis, Carpocephala breviter pedunculata, pedunculo e fundo apicali 

 costse orto, margine paleaceo, paleis purpureis lanceolatis apice filifor- 

 mibus. Capitula parva, ceterum ns G. dichotomae simillima, basi pauci- 

 paleacea, paleis linearibus purpureis, brevissimis. Capsulae cellulse 

 basales tenerse, hyahnse 17 X 34 [i, annuh 17 [i similes; operculum 

 magnum brunneum, bene definitum. cellulis magnis 35 X 35 [ji validis 

 formatum. Elateres breves usque ad 140 jx, trispiri, fusiformes, flaves- 

 centes. Sporae 50 \x rufee, in facie convexa reticulatimpapulosae, papulis 

 parum convexis, ala angusla laevi. 



Hab. Transvaal, Blcemfontein (Rehmann). 



Bene distincta stomatis minutis et sporis rufis parum papulosis. 



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