Muscr Exortici.—BSrowniani. 
GYMNOSTOMUM CAPENSE. 
Gymnostomum caule ramoso stolonifero, foliis undique 
vergentibus secundisque lanceolatis longe acuminatis 
subserratis, seta elongata, capsula spheerica striata, 
operculo conico acuto. (Tas. CLXV. 
Glyphocarpa capensis. Brown in Linn. Trans. v. 12. 
. eo. 
Has. In Monte Tabulari, Promont. Bone Spei. D. Brown. 
Caules plies Sal vage, a ntiape “Eee, ut videtur, ra- 
mosi, ramis tis, inferne apiceque radicantibus, 
Folia fusco- acta, a, ue undique vergentia, nunc, ramis, 
a Lise rin subsquarrosa, lanceolato-subulata, serrulata, 
obscu eticulata, margine subincrassata, nervo v valido, fusce- 
scen te, tits a apicem in acumen longum desinente instructa, 
Perichetialia reliquis minora. Seta, ob innovationes, non raro 
lateralis, erecta, flexuosa, vel curvata, Capsufa omuino sphe- 
rica, erecta, sulcata, orenudo. Operculum conico-acutum, 
I exceedingly regret the being ng obliged to give so unsatisfactory 
and imperfect an account of a moss in many respects so curious 
as is the subject of the present plate *. ith very much the 
habit, and —— the capsule of a Bartramia, there is a naked 
mouth to the capsule, or, as I have observed in one specimen, a 
white annular pre "membrane at the edge, as if in an earlier 
state a membrane might have gone across the whole mouth. y 
specimens are too few, however, and too injured for me to ascer- 
tain this fact}. The long creeping branches which strike root 
here and there are very curi us. 
Fig. 1, 1, 1, plants, nat. size. Fig. 2, single plant. * 3, 
leaf. Fig. 4, pericheetium aa perichaetial leaves, Fig. 5, cap- 
sule and operculum. Fig. 6, operculum, Fig. 7, capsule show- 
ing its naked mouth.—magn. 
* Mr. Brown has noticed this moss in the 12th vol. of the Linnzan Trans- 
actions, saa the name of Glyphoc arpa capensis ; but, unfortunately, has 
said nothing more about it than that “‘it has a naked sinter 
rical striated capsules, as well as inflorescence, of Bartramia;” and that with 
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be the same in that. [acco rdingly age almost the only remaining one 
in Mr. Burchell’s collection, and w a little mses a at finding that it 
was entirely destitute of teeth ; sailing? haeevks, a very eviden: horizontal 
oe closing the entire rem 
m Bartramia, and placed with this for the present ; from which it differs 
ia ‘ite much larger size, narrower leaves, and constantly quadrate capsule. 
