lateralis et apicalis.  Theca adscendente curvata, turgide ovata, 
ore æquali, pallide rubra, operculo crasso umbonato brevissime 
decurvirostro ; peristomii dentibus exter. lanceolatis,  subulatis, 
tenuiter trabeculatis, linea verticali obscura, lutescente diaphanis, 
membrana interna hyålina, cruribus carinatis, lanceolatis piliformiter 
acuminatis, remote tråbeculatis, hyalinis. 
Prope Lagoa Santa: Warming. 
Differt ab Hookeria radiculosa Hook. e plant. Humboltianis, 
prope Caripam lecta: ramificatione, foliis caulinis e basi angustiore 
lingulatis, magis chlorophyllosis, minus diaphanis, longioribus, peri- 
chætialibus apice vix denticulatis; theca turgide ovata, ore æquali, 
operculo umbonato, rostro decurvo brevissimo apiculato. 
2. G. brevipes C.M., Syn. I, påg. 232. 
Prope Rio de Janeiro: Beske; Serra dos Orgåos: 
Bunbury. 
3. G. gracile Hpe. 
Monoicum; arcte adnatum, breviter ramulosum, ramis anguste 
complanatis, flavo-viridibus, vix nitentibus,  Folia caulina brevia, 
arcte complanata, e basi oblonga lingulata, obtusiuscula, vel acuta, 
integerrima, nervo basi latiore, superne (?/4) evanescente, cellulis 
alaribus parvis, griseis, rotundatis, parce perspicuis, lateralibus 
intermediisque  ellipticis, versus apicem folii parce angustioribus 
brevioribusque; folia interiora minora et obtusiora, nervoque breviore; 
perichætialia erecta, ovato-lanceolata, tenuiter nervosa, intima latiora, 
convoluta, longiora, brevius acuminata, integerrima. Seta lateralis, 
vix uncialis (?/4) adscendens, tenerrima.  Theca exannulata, parva, 
cylindrica, pårum curvata, deoperculata apice constricta, adscendens; 
operculo prominente, flavescente, umbonato-conico, breviter acuminato. 
Peristomium connivens, dentibus ester. lanceolato-subulatis, apice 
incurvis, dense trabeculatis, parce medio lineatis, intus armatis, 
fusco-luteis; interna: membrana hyalina, cruribus carinatis, lance0- 
latis, erectis, remote trabeculatis, dente brevi acuto interjecto; 
calyptra angusta, tenera 
Prope Lagoa Santa: Warming. 
