Musct Exorici.—Gardneriant. 
NECKERA FILAMENTOSA. 
Neckera caule longissimo pendulo pinnatim ramoso, fo- 
liis squarrosis ovatis concavis undulatis acuminatis, 
pilo longo flexuoso terminatis, nervo paulo ultra me- 
dium evanescente, seta mediocri, capsula cylindracea, 
calyptra mitriformi (?) pilosa. (Tas. CLVIII.) 
Has. In Nepal, arboribus, legit Hon. D. Gardner. 
Caules e ramis longe pendentes, flexuosi, pinnatim divisi, ramis 
non raro iterum pinnatis, crassis. Folia fuscescentia, juniora 
flavo-viridia, patentia, squarrosa, ovata, concava, margine in- 
tegerrima, undulata, apice acuminata, atque pilo valde longo 
insigniter flexuoso terminata, nervo ultra medium evanescente 
instructa. Perichetialia reliquis multo minora, ovata, con- 
cava, obtusa, emarginata, atque pilo longo subflexuoso termi- 
nata, nervo obscuro; intra hee folia paraphyses numerose. 
» Capsula suberecta, oblongo-cylindracea, pallide fusca, Calyp- 
tra junior mitriformis, alba, pilis longis obsita. Operculum 
conico-rostratum, parum obliquum. Peristomii dentes fla- 
vescentes, ext. 16; int. ciliis totidem his alternantibus. 
isin 
This fine Moss is very distinct in habit from any with which 
1 am acquainted, except indeed some sterile plants given to Dr. 
Taylor and myself by Mr. Dickson, without a habitat, which are 
called by him N. éwmida, and which, as far as can be discovered 
in soimperfect a state, differ only in having the leayes obtuse in- 
stead of the cirrhose extremities observable on our present plant. 
Fig. 1, plant, nat. size. Fig. 2, leaf. Fig. 3, perichetium. 
Fig. 4, leaf of ditto. Fig. 5, capsule, Fig.6, calyptra. Fig. 7s 
teeth of the peristome,—magn. 
