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haud decurrentia; infima ovali-cuspidata, margine plana vel brevi 
spatio anguste recurva, limbo paullum effigurato instructa, costa 
in apice dissoluta; media ovato-ovalia, satis cito in cuspidem medio- 
crem superne costa excurrente formatam angustata, 2 mm. longa, 
0.7—0.8 mm. lata, margine latiuscule revoluto integra, limbata, 
superne carinata, basi vinoso-rubentia; summa angustiora, ovato- 
lanceolata, limbo subnullo; cellulæ mediocriter incrassatæ, parieti- 
bus transversis sæpe pertusis, basales mediæ rectangulæ, ad 0.08 
mm. longæ et 0.02 mm. latæ, angulares utrinque pæne folium 
dimidium occupantes, inflatæ, tenues, quadratæ vel breviter rect- 
angulæ, 0.045 mm. latæ; illæ folii superioris rhomboideæ — hex- 
agono-rhomboideæ, 0.034—0.06 mm. longæ, 0.017—0.021 mm. 
latæ, marginales longiores, angustiores, crassiores, limbum 4- 
seriatum efformantes; costa basi ca. 0.085 mm. lata et rubra, 
ceterum viridi-fusca, in aristam mediocrem strictam ætate sæpe 
fractam excurrens, subteres, cellulis ventralibus 3—4, ducibus toti- 
dem, grege comitum, fasciculo magno stereidearum, cellulis dorsa- 
libus ca. 12 composita. 
Folia innovationum a caulinis vix diversa. 
Folia perichætitalia intima ovato-lanceolata, costa crassa excur- 
rente longiuscule cuspidata, plana, haud limbata. 
Inflorescentia synoica; amtheridia pauca, 0.4 mm. longa, 0.1 
mm. crassa; pistillidia paullo numerosiora, 0.5 mm. longa; para- 
physes copiosæ, luteolæ. 
Vaginula ovato-ovalis, 0.64 mm. longa, 0.38 mm. crassa, 
purpureo-rubra. 
Seta 1.5 cm. longa, basi 0.18 mm., apice 0.15 mm. crassa, 
leniter flexuosa, apice hamata, rubra, superne lutescens. 
Capsula pendula, deoperculata sicca 1.6 mm. longa, 0.8 mm. 
crassa, e collo obconico plicato vix contracto 0.65 mm. longo ovalis, 
sub orificio haud vel levissime angustata, leptodermis, rugulosa, 
fusco-rubra, opaca ; cellulæ epidermicæ colli isodiametricæ, 0.035—0.05 
mm. latæ; stomata subrotunda, diametro ca. 0.042 mm. magna, 
poro elliptico; illæ sporangii quadratæ — rectangulæ — rotundatæ, 
ca. 0.038 mm. latæ, orificium versus in pluribus seriebus angusti- 
