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!Normandia piope Vire (Pelvet); var. y hic illlc locis humidis; var. S locis humidis Galliae meridio- 

 nalis, Hispaniae, Italiae; var. s ad terrain atque saxa arenaria sylvarum Vogesi, Sylvae Nigrae. 



Matur. Sero auctumno, prirao vere. 



Tab. VI, VII. Caespites nunc laxissimi vix cohaerentes, nunc densiores , implexi, amoene vel 

 sordide virides, substrato vix adliaerentes. 



Planta tenuis , palmaris et iongior, omnino prostrata , flexuose prorepens, modice divisa, vage 

 renaote ad extremitates confertiiis rainulosa, radiculorum fasciculis raris substrato adfixa (Fig. 1 — 3), 

 eaule viridi, annosiore brunnescente. 



Folia caulina reinota, a basi squarroso-patentia (1 b), vix subdisticha, obcordato- et late ovato- 

 lanceolata, brevius longiusve acuniinata vel sine ullo acuinine distincte, subobliqua, plano-concava 

 (4, 5, 6), ramuiina minora, ovato-lanceolata (7, 8), omnia costa tenui viridi median) paginam superante 

 instructa, toto ambitu argute serrata. Areolatio lineali-rliomboidea, ad basiu hexagono-rectangula, 

 utriculo primurdiali viridi distincte (6 ab). 



Flores dioiei; mascuii in planta femineae simili numéros! , minutuli (3), geramulas polyphyllas 

 subsquarrulosas sistentes (9), folia perigonialia ovato-lanceolata, tenui-acuminata, acumine serrulato 

 recurvo (10, 11, 12), antheridia oblonga, longe paraphysata (13). Flores feminei masculis similes, 

 paulo longiores, squarrulosi, pallidi. 



Fructus in caule ramisque primariis solitarii vel aggregati. Perichaetium in ramulo brevissimo 

 radicante (18) polyphyllum, squarrosum, pallescens (ib); folia perichaetialia infima ovato-lanceolata, 

 tenuiter flexuoso-acuminata (14), media e basi imbricante late oblonga in apiculum longum äexuoso- 

 recurvum angustata (15, 16) tenui-costata , intima angustiora, longiora, apiculo longo reflexo, costa 

 nulla (17), omnia, praeprimis apice, argute serrata, tenuia, moUia, laxe areolata. Vaginula oblonga 

 paraphysibus pallidis subpilosa (18). Calyptra ad mediam capsulam producta, albida, usque ad 

 capsulae maturitatem persistens. Capsula in pedicello unciali vel breviore, fiexuoso, purpureo dense 

 papilloso cernua et e pedicelü curvatura liorizontalis , multiformis, turgide ovata crassiuscula, ob- 

 longo-cylindracea plus minusve incurva (19 — 23), solida, pallide fusca tandem brunnescens, sicca 

 sporis impleta sub ore constricta, evacuata vix angustata (24), pedicello compresse dextram versus 

 torto. Operculum magnum luteum e basi alte convexo-conica longirostrum, rosteile sursum deer- 

 sumve curvato pallidiore. Annulus latior, e duplici série cellularum formatus (25, 26 a, 27 a), in- 

 teger vel fragmentarie secedens. Peristomii externi dentés intense ferrugineo-aurantiaci , selidiores, 

 intus lamelligeri (26,27), interni lutei processus inter articulationes hiantes, cilia longa, solitaria, 

 bina vel terna, omnino libéra vel inter se coadunata, e basi latiore lanceolata subulata, ad articu- 

 lationes brevi-appendiciilata (26). Sporae viridi-ferrugineae. 



Tab. VII. Var. ß pumilum. Plantae gracillimae , caespitulos implexos laete virides efficientes 

 (Fig. 1,2). 



Folia minus squarroso-patentia (1 b), siccitate erecta, ovato-lanceolata, subebliquata (3 — 7). mol- 

 liora, areolis brevioribus, latioribus, liexagonis (3 a b). 



Fructus. Perichaetium minus spuarrosum (1 b), folia perichaetialia ecostata (11, \^, 13). Capsula 

 turgide ovata, opercule minus longe rostrato, concolori vel lutescente (14, 15). Peristomium minus, 

 caeterum omnino simile (17, IS). 



Var. y atrovir ens. Caespites demissi implexi, obscure virides, 



Planta robustior, densius foliosa, ramis ramulisque numerosioribus (Fig. 1). 



Folia magis conferta, majora, selidiora, e rotundato- et late ovato brevi-acuminata, magis con- 

 cava (1 b, 2), ramuiina lanceolata (3). 



Bryologia Kuropaea. 2 



