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Buxb. indusiata Brid. Br. univ. i, 331 (1826) ; et ii, Suppl. 741, t. z, fig. 1-8 (1827). 

 Wallr. F1. cryp. Germ, i, 116 (1831). Hartm. Sk. Fl. 2 ed. Hueben. Muse. germ. 

 540 (1833). Br. Schimp. in Mem. Soc. Mus. Strasb. ii, Mon. p. 4, t. 2 {1835) ; Bry. Eur. 

 iv, Mon. 6, t. 2 et suppl. t. i ; Syn. Muse. 454 (i860) et 2 ed. 550 (1876). De Not. Syll. 

 muse. Ital. 146 (1838) ; Epil. Briol. Ital. 347 (1869). C. Muell. Syn. i, 151 (1848) et 

 Deutseh. Moos. 147 (1853). Raben. Deutseh. Krypt. Fl. ii, P. Ill, 240 (1848) et Krypt. 

 Fl. Saehs. i, 522 (1863). Jensen Bry. dan. 59, t. 8, f. 41 (1856). Klinggr. Crypt. Preuss. 

 15 (1858). Lange Fl. dan. t. 2752, f. 2. Hartm. Sk. Fl. 9 ed. ii, p. 45 {1854). Lindb. 

 in Not. ur Sallsk. Fn. et Fl. fenn. ix, 156 (1867). MiLDsBry. Siles. 256 (i86g). Hobk. 

 Syn. Br. M. p. 99 (1873). 



Buxb. aphylla Schw/egr in L. Sp. PI. 5 ed. V, P. II, fasc. i, p. 24, p. p. (1830). 



B. aphylla Var. /3. indusiata Wahlenb. Fl. suee. 2 ed. ii, p. 760 (1833). Hampe in Reg. 

 bot. Zeit. 1837, P- 279. 



Stem none. Vaginula thick, covered with rufescent tomentum. 

 Bracts minute, rufescent, ovate or oblongate, obtuse, the lower 

 obsoletely crenulate at margin, the upper fimbriato-ciliate, areolation 

 lax, 5-6 angled. Seta rigid, erect or flexuose, shorter, rufo-fuscous, 

 less scabrous ; capsule suberect, ventricose, ovate-oblong, pale greyish- 

 green, the cuticle thin, loose, after the fall of the operculum splitting 

 up beneath and rolling back towards the sides; operculum larger, 

 more conic, obtuse, peristome in four rows, teeth subtriquetro-linear, 

 the outermost very short, the others, gradually increasing in length, 

 more or less evidently articulated, fuscescent. Spores larger, greenish. 



Hab. On rotten branches in pine woods. 6-7. 



Pannanich, near Ballater, {Cruickshank 1847). North faee of Craigendinnie hill, near 

 Aboyne, at 500 ft. {Dickie and Roy, June, 1867). Reported also from Rosshire. 



Lindberg suspects this species to be synoicous, as he has frequently 

 found empty antheridia among the vaginular tomentum, but never male 

 plants. 



Tab. III. 



A. Buxhaumia aphylla (Virginia Water, Prof. Lawson). 



B. Buxhaumia indusiata (Craigendinnie, Prof. Dickie). 



a. Perfect plants, b. Young plant, nat. size and magnified. 



I. Plant magnified. 2. Antheridium. 3. Perichaetial bracts.- 3a. Same, more magnified, 

 showing the areolation. 4. Calyptra. g. Operculum and part of columella. 6. Trans- 

 verse section through the middle of capsule. 7. Filament connecting the spore-sae with 

 the lining of the capsule. 8. Transverse section through the operculum and endostome, 

 showing the plicse and thickened ridges of the latter, g. Mouth of capsule after removal 

 of operculum. 10. Vertical section of part of same. a. Cuticular stratum, b. Pseud- 

 annulus. c. Cilia of peristome, d. Tubular endostome. 11. Pedicellate spore-sac, 

 the walls of capsule dissected away. 



