12 MUSCI PRETERITI. 
submajores, basi dilatate pellucide plicateque. Vaginula nuda, 
brevi. Pedi 
— immersa, obovato-pyriformis, pallida, ore vix rubescens, 
riis 8 flavis angustiusculis ener cnaaulle levissime 8-costata 
prim distincto post siccationem 5-angulo. Peristomium uplex ; 
pilis simis erectis scabridis ad plicas je Andrecia 
axillaria, foliis celata, rufescentia, ovalia compressa; bractew 
sub 8, ovate obtusate concave arcte imbricate; antheridia 
plurima elongata pane a ata. 
a d itenses, in montis altissimi Hl Altar latere 
australi, supra predium Titaicun, alt. 138,000 ped. Angl., ubi ad 
saxa nive recente obtecta, mense Novembri, a. 1858, leg. 
Syn. * O. striatum, L.” Mitt. in ‘Muse. Austro-Amer.’ p. 189 
(a. 1869 
0. rupestre, Schleich., huic certe proximum, differt fructu 
subemerso; calyptra insigniter villosa; peristomio majore, ciliis 
— e cellulis biseriatis conflatis, ete.—O. striatum, L 
sula omnino ecostata calyptra dimidiam capsulam solum 
i smc ciliis 16, latis et quasi-moniliatis, longe alienum est. 
ay BooRHOREILs RECTARERED, 
tufts of a barren moss growing on crumbling ophitic shale, which 
was entirely new to me; closer examination at rters 
throw much light on its affinities, for, although when growing it 
sn Tortula unguiculata, the micro- 
scope showed it to be very different. I gathered it afterwards in 
two other widely separated ats but still in the same ba 
sterile condition. e “ wing are its chief characters :— 
Tufts dense and ve ‘il, greenish 
the lower part being of a ‘al reddish, or port-wine colour. 
re gradually wi ening awnedi so as to be somewhat 
the oi le; nerve 
failing a little Selwe the point; cells plane and nihbots those of 
the lower third pellucid, rectangular, 
cells 4—6 times smaller, subquadrate, 
of marginal cells are thicker-walled and discoloured, so that the 
