Musc:i ExorTici.—wMenziesiani. 
HYPNUM FLEXILE, 
Hypnum caule elongato flexuoso ramoso, foliis imbrica- 
tis late-ovatis valde concavis obtusis integerrimis ener- 
vibus, capsula ovato-cylindracea erecta. (Tas. CX.) 
Hypnum flexile. Swartz Fl. Ind. Occ. p. 1830. 
Leskea flexilis. Hedw. Sp. Musc. p. 234. t. 58. 
Schwaegr. Suppl. p. 168. 
Hookeria flexilis. Sith in Linn. Trans. v. 9. p. 281. 
Has. In montibus summis Jamaice australis. Swartz. Insinu — 
Dusky bay dicto apud Novam Zeelandiam. D. Menzies, 
1791. 
Caules elongati, decumbentes vel e ramis arborum pendentes, 
flexuosi, ramosi, ramis brevibus subsimplicibus cylindraceis apice 
acutiusculis. Folia nitida, flavo-viridia, subarcte imbricata, 
erecto-patentia, subundulata, late ovata, valde concava, mar- 
gine integerrima, apice obtusa, omnino enervia. Perichetialia 
cylindracea, acuta. Seta uncialis. Capsula erecta, ovato-cy- 
lindracea. Peristomium Hypni. 
EIR ne 
Sir James Smith considers the capsule of this moss as cer- 
nuous ; and so it is in some degree from the inflexion of the fruit- 
stalk in a dry state, but when moist it will be found to be erect. 
From the same learned botanist I also beg leave to differ respect- 
ing the genus of this plant. I must however confess, that I have 
not seen its calyptra, and that my opinion is therefore formed — 
merely from its habit, which approaches in many points that of 
Leskea ericoides, (Tas. XXVIII.) 
Fig. 1, plant, nat. size. Fig. 2, branch, with fructification. 
Fig. 3, leaf. Fig. 4 and 5, perichetial leaves. Fig. 6, teeth of 
outer peristome, Fig. 7, portion of inner ditto.—magn. 
