440 musci. 



Columella inclusa, magua, trigona. 

 Operculum et calyptra desiderata. 



Proxima videtur, B. tomentosae, Hook Muse. Exot. p 25. t. 19. 



1 . Plant. 



2. Cauline leaf. 



3. Perichaetial leaf. 



4. Capsule (dry). 



5. Capsule moistened. 



6. Portion of capsule and of both peristomes seen exter- 

 nally. 



7. Sporula, moistened (as opaque objects.) 



XVII. Brachymenium, Hook. Brid. Bryol. Univ. 



1. BrachymeJiium contortum, Griff. PI. C. Fig. II. 



Caule brevi simplici vel fastigiatioi ramoso. foliis siccitate con- 

 tortis, oblongo-lanceolatis marginibus incrassatis apicem ver- 

 sus denticulatatis, capsula erecta elongato-obovato-pyriformi. 



Hab : Super arbores pinetorum Mofloug. 



Caulis brevis, vix bilinealis, innovationibus ramosus, et saepius 

 dichotomus. Rami erecti, simplices, caule oaullo longiores. 



Folia siccitate valde contorta, leniter tortilia, marginibus- valde 

 revolutis humore patenti-ascendentibus, interdum leniter con- 

 torta summa subrosaceim patula, interdum obovata, margi- 

 nibus leniter revolutis (apices versus exceptis fibrosis, sur- 

 sum attenuatis et apices versus denticulatis, percursa vena in 

 cuspidem subulatam folio aliquoties breviorem scabram ex- 

 currente-areolis conspicuis. 



Flores monoici vel dioici ; masculi terminates gemmiformes, cincti 

 foliis caulinis terminalibus et ideo quasi discoidei, foliisque 

 perigonialibus conniventibus multo minoribus, ovato-rotun- 

 datis, apiculatis simili modo, concavis. 



Paraphyses plures hyalinae filiformes. 



Antherae plures subsessiles-oblongo, cylindraceae, areolatae 

 apice dehiscentes. 



Flores fseminei terminales discoidei. 



Paraphyses pistillaque plurima. 



