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Cellulse foliorum basilares elongato-rectangulse, 0.085—0.12 mm, 

 longae et 0.02 mm. latee, parietibus rubris et porosis, angulares bistratee 

 rotundato-qvadratae, inflatse, folii medii hexagono-ihombeae, 0.036—0.054 

 mm. longee et 0.015—0.02 mm. latee. 



Costa valida, rubro-fusca, excurrens vel in summo apice dissoluta. 



Inflorescentia heteroica, floribus bisexualibus raiis et masculis nu- 

 merosis ut et femineis minus numerosis. Flos masculus gemmaeformis, 

 antheridiis numerosis, brevi-pedunculatis, 0.37 — 0.5 mm. longis; folia 

 perigonialia interna late obovata, apice perbrevi triangulari, margine 

 piano serie una cellularum rhombearum limbata, costa sub apice disso- 

 luta. Pistillidia floris feminei 4—6, 0.57—0.7 mm. longa; paraphyses 

 floris utriusqve longiores, rufescentes. 



Seta 11 mm. longa, interne rubro-fusca, rigidula, mediocriter crassa, 

 apice arcuata. 



Capsula pendula, regularis, operculata 2.6 mm. longa et 1 mm. 

 crassa, incano-fuscescens, baud nitens, cylindrico-oblonga. Sporangium 

 in collum sensim defluens, siccitate sub orificio pauUulum angustatum. 

 Collum duas qvintas sporogonii longum, in setam attenuatnm, siccitate 

 plicatum, rectum vel leniter curvatum. 



Cellulse exothecii marginales in seriebus duabus latiores qvam lon- 

 giores, dein in seriebus nonnullis subqvadratae, ceterse maxime irregula- 

 res, vix longiores qvam latiores, parietibus valde sinuosis mediocriter 

 incrassatis. Cellulae epidermicae colli qvadratse, breviter I'eetangulce vel 

 ovales; stomata ovalia, 0.055 mm. longa, cellulis viciniis 7—8. 



Exoslomii dentes e fundo 0.06 mm. alto, protunde aurantio, 0.47 mm. 

 longi, e basi 0.066 — 0.095 mm. lato in apicem elamellosum aciculoe 

 instar acutum tenuemqve repente angustati, margine sinuoso anguste 

 limbati et papilloso-crenulati, dense papilloso-punctulati, ad tertiam su- 

 premam lutescentes, apice fere hyalino; sculula infima rectangula, cetera 

 qvadrata, subtilissime punctulata, suturis conspicuis, mediana recta; la- 

 mellae circiter 12, longe remotae, altae, decurrentes, margine arcus duos 

 prsebentes, perforationibus nullis, infimae inter se sepimentis lateralibus 

 binis, in qvae lamella decurrit, conjunctae. 



Endostomium exostomio baud adhaerens, lutescens, subtilissime et 

 sparsim punctuialum; membrana 0.12 mm. alta; processus anguste lan- 

 ceolati, papillosi, exostomio breviores, secus carinam interne foraminibus 

 anguste ovalibus pei-forati, superne rimoso-pertusi. 



Cilia rudimentaria. 



Annulus duplex. 



