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Carpocephala plus minus longe pedunculata. pedunculus e fundo nudo 

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

 varie humiliterque costalus, canali parvo subcylindrico percursus; capitula 

 parva vertice rolundata. slomatis humilibus, normaliter quadriloba. Invo- 

 lucra parum divergentia, ore inlegerrimo. Capsulae cellulse basales 

 tenerae 17 X 68 fx, annuli 25 X 25 fi operculi validée 35 X 68 p. Sporœ 

 60 [x, brunnese alte papulosae. Elateres concolores, tenues 170 fx longi. 

 Andrœcia in fronde repetita, ssepe regulariter séria ta vel in soros plus 

 minus reguläres aggregata. 



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

 Portugal (Moller). Algeria (Trabut), Abyssinia (Schimper, Sclrweinfurth), 

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

 Perrandière), Himalaya, Chitral (Harris) et Ralan Valley (Duthie), Caa- 

 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. Cellulce epider- 

 midis maxime incrassatse, trigonis magnis, ssepe confluentibus. Squamœ 

 poslicee magnée, imbricatee, oblique semilunatte, apice breviter bifîdas, 

 la ciniis anguste lanceolatis, sinu lato acuto discretis, flexuosis. parvicellu- 

 laribus, interdum cellula prominente paucidentatis. Andrœcia in fronde" 

 feininea repetita, antheridiis biseriatis, alternantibus, ostiolis parvis, 

 midis. Carpocephala breviter pedunculata, pedunculo e fundo apicali 

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

 mibus. Capitula parva, ceterum iis G. dichotomœ simillima, basi pauci- 

 paleacea, paleis linearibus purpureis, brevissimis. Capsulae cellulse 

 basales tener&e, hyalinse 17 X 34 ^, annuli 17 ij similes; operculum 

 magnum brunneum, bene defînitum. cellulis magnis 35 X 35 ji validis 

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

 centes. Sporœ 50 jj. rufee, in facie convexa reticulatimpapulosae, papulis 

 parum convexis, ala angusta lsevi. 



Hab. Transvaal, Blœmfontein (Rehmann). 



Bene distincla stomatis minutis et sporis rufis parum papulosis. 



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