108 BULLETIN DE l'herbier boissier. Fimbnariü. 



38. Fimbriaria vesiculosa Austin. Acad. Phila. 1869. 

 Monoica, mediocris, pallide virens, in sicco flavescens, maxime crassa. 



Frons ad 15 mm. longa, 3 mm. lata, repetito breviterque furcata, apice 

 ssepe 4-6 ramulos nascenles gerens, ante apicem itaque latissima ob 

 ramulos nondum separatos, antice valde concava, postice leniler convexa, 

 ubique fere sequicrassa, alis parum atlenuatis; costa latissima, frondi 

 fere aequilata, in alis attenuatim excurrens. Stratum anticum coslse sequi- 

 altum, cavernis antice convexo-prominulis, amplis, prismalicis, fila libéra 

 nulla; stomata parva, numerosa, parum convexa, poro magno 6 cellulis 

 parvis circumdato. Epidermidis cellulae sequaliter incrassatse, validae. 

 Squamae magnge., roseae, oblique trianguläres, longe acuminalse, nusquam 

 constrictse. Pedunculus ad 10 mm. longus, validus, in sectione compresso 

 ellipticus, apice paleis hyalinis longe filiformibus sparsim barbalus. Car- 

 pocephala cenlro hemisphserica, lobis quam centrum duplo brevioribus 

 oblique palulis cum involucro sequilongo cupulatis usque ad basin liberis. 

 Perianthia ovata, distincte acuminata, laciniis longe cuspidatis, hyalina ad 

 -/s exserta. Capsula medio infero cellulis elongatis, supero magnis cellulis 

 incrassatis formata, hyalina. Sporae 54 ji flavescentes, anguste alatse. 

 Elateres subhyalina 180 [i, spiris duplicatis filiformibus. Andrœcia pedun- 

 culo approximata. Anlheridia longe seriata totum ramulum fere percur- 

 rentia. 



Hab. Patria? North Pacific Exp. (Rodgers). 



Eine ausgezeichnete Art, welche an ihrer dicken, schwammigen Frons 

 leicht wieder zu erkennen sein wird. 



39. Fimbriaria californica Hampe in Austin. Hep. Bor. Am., 

 p. 135. 



Monoica, major, robusta, fusco-viridis. margine posticeque purpurascens. 

 Frons simplex vel ex apice innovata, ad 2 cm. longa, 12 mm. lata, crassa, 

 antice subplana, costa late convexa, fronde duplo anguslior, sensim in 

 alas atténua ta, humilis; alae tenues, crispato-plicatulae. Stratum anticum 

 sat altum, cavernis angustis; stomata magna, hyalina, valde concava, 

 celluhs Iriseriatis formata, poro amplo. Cellulse epidermidis sequahter 

 incrassatse. Squamae posticee purpurese, magnse, semilunatse, appendiculis 

 (2 vel 3) brevibus, basi valde constrictis, lanceolatis, hyalinis. Capitula 

 dilute viridia, longe pedunculata, pedunculo ad 2 ^'2 cm. longo, valido, 

 superne stramiiieo, basi flavo-rufescens, nudo, apice barbato, paleis 

 longissimis, hyalinis, linearibus vel lanceolatis, e cellulis elongatis gedifi- 

 catis. Carpocephala centre hemisphserico, ad medium quadriloba, lobis 



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