8. * ISOTHECIÜM. 



Fructus in i-amis primariis solitarii vel aggregaii. Perichaetium laxe imbiicatum (1 b). Folia 

 perichaetialia externa ecostata (1*3 IS); interna tenuissime eostata, e basi oblonga concava subito 

 longe acuminata, acumine recnrvo (Iß, 17). Vaginnla subpilosa ClS). Capsula in pedicello semi- 

 uDciali et subnnciali rubello suberecta, vel cernua, aequalis vel siibincurva, ovalis, oblo^ga, quoad 

 magnitudinem valde variabllis (19—22), inaturitate perfecta intense fei-rnginea, sicca evacuata erecta, 

 pedicello dextram versus torto (23). Annulus latus, band raro cum operculo secedens (24). Peri- 

 stoinium majusculum , lutescens; externi dcntes siccitate incurvi (23), e lanceolato longe subulati, 

 lutescentes, anguste hyaliuo-marginati (25, 27), intus trabeculati (26); interni processus anguste 

 lanceolato-subulati, in carina biantes, ciliis interpositis filiformibus plus minusve perfectis (2.5). 



