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Habitat : in Surinamo, ubi omnium primus collegit doct. vaw Dzek 
VoLLENHOVEN et cum herb. clariss, MiqvEL communicavit. 
FockE in herb. MiqvEL n». 1388; ad truncos prope Parama- 
ribo, KEGEL. 
Tab. XVIIT. fig.1l. planta natur. magnit.; 2. plantae pars tricies aucta ; 
3. ramuli pars cum gemmis masculis et femine, 4. 5. 6. folia, quin- 
quagies aucía; T. folium centies et quinquagies auctum; 8. antheridia 
centies aucta; 9. 10. folia perigonii, 11. perichaetium, 12. ejusdem 
folium interius, quinquagies aucta; 193. archegonium centies auctum; 
14. capsula operculata, 15. capsula deoperculata, 16. capsula junior, 17. 
capsula sicca vetustior, 18, calyptra, quimquagies auctae; 19. peristo- 
mii pars ducenties aucta; 20. sporae trecenties auctae. 
49. HYPNUM PUNGENS Hzpw. Spec. muse. p. 237. tab. 60. Mür. 
Syn. musc. Il. p. 387. Leskea pungens Sw. Fl. ind. occid. 
III. p. 1806, Bnrp. Dryol. univ. II. p. 291. Mürr. Linnaea 
1848. p. 197. Leskea patens NIwscm. Fl. brasil, I. p. 72. 
Plantae caespitosae, laxe cohaerentes, uberrime fructigerae, rigidiuseu- 
lae, luteo-virides, siccae straminco-lutescentes ; caulis repens, vage ra- 
mosus, flexuosus; rami e basi adscendente erecti, curvati, flexuosi, cras- 
siusculi, laxe foliosi, valde irregulariter ramulosi, ramulis cuspidatis vel 
aduncis. 
Folia undique inserta, subhorizontaliter patentia, versus apices ramo- 
rum attenuatos subsecunda, stricta, e basi coarctatà et subauriculatà 
brevissimá caulem amplectente reflexa, late lanceolato-acuminata, apice 
acutiuscula vel emarginato-truncatula , margine integerrimo magis mi- 
nusve involuta, laevia, splendentia, costa destituta vel costis binis ob- 
soletis praedita ; areolatione e cellulis linearibus, confertissimis, pallidis, 
angustis, ad utramque baseos alam 3 maximis limpidissimis vel flavidis 
impressis subquadrato-oblongis, vesiculaeformibus. 
. Florescentia hermaphrodita. Flores in ramis et ramulis axillares, gem- 
miformes. Gemmae  ovato-subrotundae; patulae, oligophyllae: folia 
erecta, valde concava, arcte convoluta, latissime ovata, subrotunda, cu- 
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