388 musci. 



1. Capsule. 



2. Long section of Capsule. 



3. Portion of Peristome. 



4. Epiphragma. 



5. Cauline leaves. It Ass. 560. 



3. Polytrichum proliferum, Gr. PL XCIII. Fig. II. 



Caule indiviso hinc apice innovatione prolifero, foliis falcato- 

 incurvatis siccitate tortilibus e basi lanceolata longe lineari- 

 bus argute dentatis carinatis carina medium supra denticu- 

 lata, capsula erecta oblongo-ovata basi sub-apophysata, oper- 

 culo conico breviter apiculato, calyptra villosissitna. 



Hab : Legi primum in umbrosis circa C hurra Punjee sed absque 

 fructificatione ; serius fructiferura invenit D. Wallichius in- 

 fra rupes in umbrosissimis prope Surureem. 



Caespitosum, atrovirens : caules spithamaei, basi denudati. Folia 

 siccitate marginibus involuta incurvata et tortilia, longissima 

 fere semuncialia, angustia, acuta, vena completa ab initio par- 

 tis linearis angustissime lamellata, infima innovationum ob- 

 longo-lanceolata, vena ellamellosa. F. perichaetialia confor- 

 mia longiora. 



Seta terminalis vel pseudolateralis, solitaris vel geminata, crassi- 

 uscula, basi rubra cseterum pallida, siccitate tortilis et flexu- 

 osa. Vaginula angusta. Paraphyses fiiliformes hyalinae, inee- 

 qualiter septatae, tennuissimee. Pistillasubnulla. 



Capsula aequilateralis, oblongo-ovata, interdum anguste urni- 

 formis, fuscoviridis, collo constricto. 



Membrana interna libera ad collum capsula? in annulum inflexa, 

 annulo, operculo persistente, apice columella? obturato. 



Peristomium e dentibus 32 linearibus, eequalibus, ajquidistanti- 

 bus, inflexis, basi unitis, acutiusculis, pulchre coccineo-rubris, 

 marginibus hyalinis. 



Epiphragma tenue, hyalinum. centro opaciusculum. 



Columella cylindracea, irregulariter alata, apice imo plana, lou- 

 gitudine fere capsulae. 



Sporula in acervulo sordide viridia, minuta, rotundata, laevia, 

 inaequalia. 



