496 PLEUROCARPI, PERISTOML. HYPNUM. 
sam longissimam emittentia, margine: omnino integerrima, 
nervo tenui subdimidiato. exarata , tenuia, flaccida, obsol:- 
tissime striata, nitida, aureo-lutescentia, senio fusca, t:- 
nuissime elongato - eegenen Fructus nulli visus. 
Obs. 7, Specimina Melvilleana ab alpinis nostris caule 
longiore, molliore, subsimplici, foliisque magis ern 
breviusque cirrhiferis differunt. Cur separentur tamen 
Obs. I. De stirpe. Sclrwaegrichenianá nobis ab Hors- 
scuucuio Fuwcxioque amice communicatà absolutam senten- 
tiam ferre, nec an satis specifice ab H. albicanti differat, 
ob fructüs defectum, pronunciare non licet, Caeterum fa- 
cies teres, ramorum forma subclavata, folia obtusiora, con- 
caviora, mucrone toriuoso praedita , €t color. pulcherrimus. 
aureo-nitens speciem propriam esse Lenk hinc H. pili- 
fero, illinc albicanti affinissim 
71. Hypnum tenax ( Mventrxz. Hrpw.) caule repente varie di- 
viso, ramis surrectis indivisis, foliis intricatis ovato - acu- 
minatis excurrenti -nerviis, thecae cernuae operculo coni- 
co apiculato. Mant. Musc. p. 774. e mend, typogr. H. te- 
nue, Sp. Musc. II. i 190. SrEvD. Nom. Crypt. p. 219 
H. tenax repen 8 indivisis , foliis ovatis acumina- 
rami 
. tis lanceolatis äs oae fasciculo Mere arte , sporangiis 
cernuis. Henn, Sp. Musc. p. 977. t: LXXII. f. € — 7- JH. te- 
nax repens, vagum, foliis ovato -acuminatis solidinervibus 
integerrimis,  setà longà, operculo conico mucronulato. 
Scuwarcon. Suppl. I. P, II, p. 262. 
. Zühes Asimoos: Garı., Hypne tenace, 
Kë Pensylvanià habitat lignis aut arborum vetustanum 
"^ ecaudicibus putre scentibus tenaciter adhaerens. 2}. 
Caulis repens, uncialis, m mis , vage ramosus. Ramuli 
suberecti, tenaces, simplice s. Folia dense imbricata, ova- 
to -lan Relabt acuminata, integerrima, nervo crasso eXcur- 
rente , weide patula, pallida. .Perichaetialia oblonga, ner- 
vata, Pedunculus in caule lateralis, solitarius, erectus, 
r- 
- uncià longior, laevis, rubens. Thok oblonga, arcuat 
^ mua, fusca, Peristomii exterioris dentes sedecim lanceolati, 
z dense: tra trabeculati, rubro-ferruginei, apice nmt P à 
aT 
- terius membrana pallide lutescens, carinato - sulcata , 
