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margine argule serrait« ; capsula in pedicello laevi incurvo-cernua , turgide ovafa, arcuato-cylindrica, 

 operculi rostro longissimo sursum deorsumve curvato ; annulo lato, peristomii tnagni denfibus intus lamel- 

 ligeris, prucessibus tota carina hiantibus. 

 Hypnum longirostre Ehrh. PL exsicc. p. 75. — Web. & Mohr Bot. Tasch. p. 324. — Brid. BryoL 



univ. II, p. 502. 

 Hypnum striatum Schreb. Spicil. Flor. Lips. p. 58. — Hedw. Muse, frond. IV, p. 32, Tab. Xlll. — 

 Hook, et Ta\l. AIusc. Brit. ed. 2, p. 178. — Hartman Skand. Flor. ed. 5, p. 336. — De Notar. 

 Syllab. p. 39. — C. Müller Synops. II, p. 460. 

 Var. ß méridionale magis confertum, stolonigerum ; caute, ramis, ramulisque brevioribus ; foliiscon- 

 feriioribus, longius acuminatis, solidioribus , angustius areolatis siccitate crispatulis ; capsuHs 

 brevins pedicellatis; pallidioribus. 

 Hypnum méridionale W. P. Sch. in litt. 

 Hypnum Hildenbrandii Garovagl. in litt. 



Habit. Ad teirani in sylvis planitiei montiunique minus editorum totius Europae; var. ß locis 

 siccioribus Europae meridionalis. 



Matur. Auctumno et primo vere. 



Tab. V. Caespites laxi, inordinate expansi, terrae instrati, vix ei adhaerentes, laete vel pallide 

 virides, ditissime fructiferi. 



Planta longe arcuato-prostrata, ad ramos juniores radicans, inordinate ramosa, ramulis partim erec- 

 tiSj partim expansis, hie confertis illic reraotis, flexuosis, flagelliformibus, jnnioribus obtusis (Fig. 1). 



Folia conferta, squarrosa, e cordato-ovato laneeolata et subtriquetra, longius breviusque acumi- 

 nata (4 — 6), ramulina ovato-laticeolata (7), omnia toto margine argute serrata, eosta teiiui ultra 

 medium prodeunte instructa, concava, margine explanata ad basin subrecurva, plicis parum distinctis 

 exarata (4x,x'); areolatio anguste et vermiculari-rhomboidea (4 3, 6 a), ad baseos angulos qua- 

 drata (4 b). 



Flores pseudo-raonoici ; masculi in plantulis annuis plantis femineis insidentibus eisque radiculis pro- 

 priis adfixis (Ibc/), simplicibus (9) vel divisis geraniulasque florales atque ramulos tenues micro- 

 phyllos complures sistentibiis (9); fulia perigonialia pauca ovato-lanceolata (10, 11), antheridia pauca 

 paraphysata (12), vel eparapliysata. Flores feminei numerosi, polyphylli, squarrulosi. 



Fruclus in caule raniisque primariis pro more numerosi. Pericliaetium in ramulo brevi eradicu- 

 loso vel parce radieante polypliyllum, squarrosuni; folia pericliaetialia infima minima ovata, obtusa 

 (13), media obiongo-lanceolata, acuminata, e medio reflexa (14), intima subvaginantia, subito longa 

 aeuminata, acumine patulo, obsolete costata (15), omnia tenuia, pallida, estriata. Calyptra plus mi- 

 nusve elongata, nunc capsuiae colIum, nunc mediam solummodo capsulam attingens, longirostra (1 b, 

 16). Capsula multiformis, ovata, ovalis, cylindracea turgida vel arcuato-incurva (l6 — 21); evacuata 

 sicca vix siib ore coarctata (22). Operculum longirostrum , rostro subulato sursum deorsumve cur- 

 vato. Annulus latus e tiiplici série cellularum efformatus (23,24). Peristoniium magnum, dentés 

 longe subulati, intus lamellati (24), ferruginei, processus tota carina hiantes, cilia longa binata vel 

 ternata (23). 



Variât caespitibus densioribus colore aureo-viridi insignibus; plantis stolonigeris robustioribus, 

 brevius densiusque ramulosis ((3 1,2); foliis densissime confertis, squarrosissiiftis, siccitate crispatulis, 

 longius acuminatis, angustius areolatis (ß 3), capsulis brevius pedicellatis, pallidioribus, moUioribus, 

 operculo minus longe subulato. 



