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BRYUM (RHODOBRYUM) FORMOSUM Mirv. 
By Ernest §. Satmon, F.L.S. 
(Puate 413.) 
_ Dioicum?, cespitosum, cespitibus e melleo vel succineo rufes- 
centibus le ad 6 ce nt. alto e rosula prolificante ad basin folioso, 
rvo 
recurvatum excurrente, agit subhexagonis 95-125 p longis 
20-25 p latis apicem ver minoribus omniu m parietibus. valde 
satis limbum rufescentem unistratosum efformantibus, foliis peri- 
chetialibus exterioribus caulinis similibus sai tecler dette angustioribus 
m ata ad dentium medium exserta processibus in carina 
lacunosis ciliis (2-3) inter rpositis, operculo mami ari, an ulo lato 
composito spiraliter revolubili, s sporis levibus 17-20» diam. 
Patria. India (No. 492 in Herb. Beddome at Kew) ; Nilghiris, 
Sispara, 7000 ft., Nov. 1888, leg. J. S. Gamble. No. 13312, in 
Species procera et formosa, B. Wiyhtii Mitt. affinis, sed colore, 
habit robustiore, dasihe rosulato nec non folii margine haud revoluto 
dist 
Dr. Brotherus kindly replied as fo amined the 
moss you sent me, and beg to inform you that it 1s, no doubt, quite 
different from both Wightii and B. nil e. I have for 
a9 
5 
. mu 
5 
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4 
2 
= 
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i) 
. 
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6 
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poe = 
Pye 
Cae ten ‘kindly tases. me that “ B. formosum”’ was one of 
several unpublished manuscript —- attached by him to the 
mosses of Col. Beddome’s herbariu 
B. pe although shiciwhagy some affinity with B. Wightii, 
Journat or Botany.—Vou. 38. [Supr. 1900.] 24 
