Musci Exortc3.—Gardneriani. 
ZYGODON OBTUSIFOLIUM. 
Zygodon foliis obtusis. (Tas. CLIX.) 
Has. In Nepal. Hon. D. Gardner. 
Caules dense cespitosi, erecti, simplices vel ad apicem innovatio- 
nibus divisi. Folia sublaxe imbricata, erecto-patentia, rufo- 
fuscescentia, lingulata, obtusissima, minute punctata, margine 
omnino integerrima, nervo satis valido, fusco, paulo infra api- 
cem evanescente, instructa. Perichetialia reliquorum similia, 
Seta elongata, gracilis, flavescens. Capsula elongato-pyrifor- 
mis, intense fusco-rufescens, profunde suleata. Calyptra di- 
midiata, glabra. Opercu/um conicum, subacuminatum, ver- 
tice obliquo. Peristomium duplex, pallidum; ext. dentibus 
16 per paria approximatis, transversim striatis ; > int. ciliis § 
horizontalibus setaceis, his alternantibus, 
If I may judge from the number of specimens of this interest- 
ing plant sent me by my liberal correspondent, it is of not uncom- 
mon occurrence in Nepal. The colour is a vinous red approach- 
ing to brown, in which it differs from our Z. conoideum, though 
not so essentially as in the very obtuse leaves and longer and 
harrower capsules, 
Fig. 1, tuft of plants, nat. size. Fig. 2, leaves. Fig. 3, apex 
of leaf. Fig. 4, capsule. Fig. 5, operculum. Fig. 6, calyptra. 
Fig. 7, peristome,—magn. 
