DIDYMODON. 



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Seta ob innovationes lateralis, vix uncialis, pallida, sicca torta. 

 Vagiuula longissiina, aDguste cyiindracea. Paralyses plures 



breves. Pistilla pauca. 

 Capsula rarius erecta, inaequilateralis, cylindraceo-ovata utrin- 



que attenuata, exanuulata, fusco-bruunea, sicca saepearcuata. 

 Membrana interna libera. 



Peristoma dentes per piria obsolete approximate profunde bi- 

 partite (raro tripartiti), laciniis discretis vel hie ilii, nexis. vel 

 omnino cohaerenttbus, pallide rubri, apicibus albidis opaco- 

 punctulatis, liueis longitudinalibus indistinctis, 



Sporula fasco ocliroleuca, subrotundata, Is via, majuscula, im- 

 mersa hyalina. 



Columella inclusa, miniata. 



Operculum capsula ^ brevius. 



Calyptra magna, capsula longior, dimidiata, caduca. 



Habitus quodammodo Barbularum ramosarum. 



Haec species, cum D. squarroso et longifolio, Trichostomo Bri- 

 delii pertinet. 



1. Capsule. 



2. Portion of Capsule and Peristome, seen internally. 



3. Sporula. 



4. Operculum. 



5. Calyptra. 



6. Cau line leaf. 



7. Perichaetial leaf and bit of seta. It. Ass. 526. 



5. Didymodon, Dicranoides Griff. PI. LXXXII. Fig. II. 



Die. didymodon Gr. Calc. Jour. Nat. Hist. II. p. 499. 



Cuale simplice, foliis persistentibus longissimis subulato-seta- 

 ceis falcatim secundis apicibus scabris, seta flexuosa, cap- 

 sula cylindracea pendula, peristomii dentibus 32 per paria 

 approximatis, operculo conico sublato obliquo, calyptar 

 glabra. 



Hab. Pineta Moflong, truncis arborum adbaerens. 

 Dense caespitosum, amoene virens. 



Caules vix trilineales, erectiusculi, radiculis villosi, basi nudiu a - 

 culi. 



