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Rami patentissimi; inferiores saepe ultra semipollicares, apicem caulis 
versus deerescentes, adeo approximati, ut ramuli sibi incumbent; summi 
caulis.terminalis instar simplices, attenuati, teretiuseuli, compressiusculi, 
inferiores ‚laxe pinnatim ramosi.  Horum ramuli 'cireiter per. paria terna 
distributi, inferiores longiores, nonunquam vix ramo: primario minores, 
minus patuli, compressiusculi, attenuati, semper aliquot crassiores quam 
Hypnisplendentis. Folia caulina et ramea conferta, imbricatim biseriata; 
lateralia basi patula, apice ereeta, nonnunquam subverticaliter posita; 
intermedia ‚ ereeto -appressa, nonnunquam summa  subsecunda,  siccitate 
directionem- servantia.  Cuncta majuscula, caulina majora, oblongo-lan- 
ceolata, ramulina lanceolata, omnia sensim longeque acuminata, apicem 
versus dcute serrata, planiuseula, laevia, nee plicata, nec margine flexa, 
e cellulis teneris elongatis laxiuscule et aequaliter retieulata, nitentia, 
pallide luteo-viridia, basi fuscescentia, omnino enervia, rarius. basi obso- 
lete binervia, ‚Perichaetia cauli axillariter inserta, occultiuscula... Folia 
perichaetialia imbricata, inferiora apieibus reeurviuscula, ovata, obtusius- 
cula; ‚sequentia- ovato-lanceolata, acuminata; intima erecta, caulinis similia 
sed eitius  longissime - subcapillaceo-acuminata, 'apicem versus. serrata, 
pallide ‚virentia, basi lutescentia,..demum rufescentia, e cellulis elongatis 
laxiusculis: texta, enervia. . Vaginula margine apices foliorum perichae- 
tialium aequat,. eylindrica, subattenuata, pallide fuscescens.  Stipes in 
perichaetio solitarius, ereetus, tenuis, subflexuosus vel rectus, pollicaris 
vel longior , laevis, purpurascens, siecitate obsolete tortus. Theca cylin- 
drica, e stipite sensim inerassata, obsolete eurvata vel rectiuscula, erecta 
vel subinclinata, laevis, pallide fusca. Dentes peristomii exterioris lanceo- 
_ dati, acuminati,. fusei; perist. interius e membrana ad medium integra, 
carinato-plicata, lutescenti in processus 16 lanceolatos, attenuatos, imper- 
foratos (ut videtur) eiliasque binas vel singulas soluta formatum. Oper- 
culum ‚conicum rubellum. 
Collegi hanc speciem Septembri 1833 fructibus partim immaturis, 
partim perditis annosis in alpibus bavaricis juxta viam von Schliersee 
nach dem in der Nähe befindlichen Wasserfall — nahe bei diesem linker 
Hand im dunkeln Nadelwalde. 
