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valde convexa, poro magno a 6 cellulis quinqaeserialis circumdato. 

 Cellulae epidermidis tenerse, haud incrassalse. Sqiiamae posticœ purpurese 

 imbricatae, appendiculo constricto oblique ovato, acuto obtuse dentato. 

 Carpocephala parum convexa breviter pedunculata, pedunculo paleis 

 linearibiis sparsis hirlo, apice paleis similibus barbato, ceterum subtereti, 

 superficie varie obtuseque costato. Capitula e centro parvo hemisphserico 

 ad medium 4-loba, lobis optime cuneatis, apice Iruncato-rotundatis, um- 

 bellatim paiulis, aLtenuatis et laxissime cavernosis, margine ob cavernas 

 prominentes repando-angulato: Involucra late campanulata, postice 

 tenerrima. Perianthia primo (e basi inflata) longe rostrata, laciniis fissis 

 itaque longe angusleque acuminatis, hyalinis. Capsula dilule brunnea 

 cellulis magnis in operculo brunneo multo minoribus. Sporse ad 85 [i 

 fulvse vel rufescentes, asperse grosse lobatim alatse. Elateres 370 ^, 

 tenues et atlenuali, laxe bispiri. Andrœcia pedunculo approximata, parva 

 ostiolis longis hyalinis. 



Hab. Insulas canarienses (Perrandière), Ins. Agores (Hochsteller), 

 Madeira (Saera, Fritze, Mandon), Algeria (Herb. Montagne). 



17. Fimbriaria Pringlei Und. Bot. Gaz. XX, p. 64. 



Monoica, minor, Eenuis, viridis subglauca, in setate purpurascens. 

 Fixons usque ad 2 cm. longa, 4 mm. lata, interdum furcata, pro more ex 

 apice innovata, rami feminei semper e latere costee orti, alis adscenden- 

 libus antice leniter canaliculata, costa bene producta, strato antico sub- 

 triplo humilior, plano-convexa, sensim in alas attenuata; alx subhyalinae 

 optime crispato-plicatulse, margine grosse inciso-lobulatse; Stratum 

 anticum costse aequiallum, ca vernis angustis; stomata minima, poro parvo, 

 6 cellulis biseriatis prœrupte superpositis circumdato. Squamœ magnse 

 purpurese vix imbricalse oblique ovalse, appendiculo hyaline, magno 

 oblonge acuminato, hie illic spina armato, basi pro more vix constriclo. 

 Carpocephala longius pedunculata, pedunculo ad 2 cm. longo, purpureo, 

 tenui. basi apiceque nudo; capitula subglobosa 3 mm. in diam. valde 

 papulosa, stomatis valde convexis, poro interne 6-cell. conicis inflatis 

 circumdato, quadriloba, lobis parvis ob margines ad posticum incurvos 

 ore angustatis. Perianthia ad medium immersa, ovata, obtusa, hyalina, 

 capsula opei'culo bistrato fusco rumpelis. Sporœ nigree, grosse tubercu- 

 latee, 102 ^; elateres dilute brunnei 2o5 [i vermiculares 1 vel 2 spiri. 

 Andrœcia in frondis ramulo proprio (haud ventrali) parva, oblonga, 

 ostiolis brevibus purpureis. 



Hab. Mexico, Guadalajara (Pringle, mense Sept. cum fructu maturo). 



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