Muscti Exorici.—Wenziesiant. 
LESKEA ERICOIDES. 
Leskeacaule elongato ramoso tereti, foliis arcte imbricatis 
erectis ovatis subacuminatis striatis enervibus integerri- 
mis, apice recurvo, seta brevi, capsula oblonga erecta 
suleata, operculo subulato, (Tas. XXVIII.) 
Has. In sinu Dusky Bay dicto, in Nova Zeelandia, D. Menzies, 
Caules palmares ad spithameum, erecti? (penduli?) subdicho- 
tome divisi, teretiusculi. Folia flavo-viridia, nitida, undique 
imbricata, erecta, ovata, subacuminata, enervia, striata, inte- 
gerrima, apice recurvo. Perichetialia circa pedicellum arcte 
convoluta, estriata, Sef@ vix unciam longe, flexuose. Cap- 
sula erecta, oblongo-ovata, intense fusca, profunde sulcata, 
Operculum subulatum, vix curvatum, Cali yptra dimidiata. 
Perisiomium Leskee. 
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The species to which this is most nearly allied is doubtless the 
Leskea flexilis of Hedwig, and like it probably is pendulous in 
its place of growth. From that it differs in the ramification (which 
is not pinnated with short and distant branches), in the far less 
concave, distinctly striated leaves, and in these having their points 
recurved, or, I might almost say, reflexed, for they are generally 
so much bent down as to lie against the back of the leaf. The 
capsule is remarkably deeply furrowed. 
In a work on foreign Mosses | think it right, at least for the 
present, to adopt the genus Leskea, though I must again repeat 
it as my opinion that it is one not founded in nature. The genus 
Hypnum, is now of so vast an extent, that, in cases where the 
peristome can be well examined, it is convenient to have recourse 
to such characters as are afforded by the Hedwigian families of 
Leskea and Hypnum, 
Fig. 1, plant nat. size. Fig. 2, leaf seen in front. Fig.3, ditto 
seen from behind. Fig. 4, perichatium and capsule. Fig. 5, oavet 
leaf of perichetium. Fig. 6, inner leaf of ditto. Fig. 7, opercu 
lum. sk Nae 8, teeth of outer peristome. Fig. 9, portion of inner 
0, calyptra. 
