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vermiculari ad angulos basilares dilatato. Flores cauloge- 

 ni, dioici, rarius monoici, rarissime bisexuales. Ramulus 

 perichaetialis radicans. Calyptra fugax. Capsula in pedi- 

 cello nunc laevi mine aspero cernua vel horizontalis, tur- 

 gide ovalis vel oblonga incurva, solidiuscula. Operciikim 

 in rostrum plus minus elongatum productum. Annulus 

 compositus, raro nullus. Peristomium Brachythecii. 



Sect. I. E. striata. 



Folia tenui-areolata, subseariosa, nitida, plus minus di- 

 stincte sulcata. 



1. Pedicellus laevis. 



1. EURHYNCHIUM STRIATUM Schpr. 



Procerum laxe demisso-caespitosum, caespites irregula- 

 res incohaerentes, laete vel pallide virides. Planta longe 

 arcuato-prostrata, vel partim assurgens, fasciculato - radi- 

 cans, inordinate ramosa, hic illic subdendroidea, dense 

 foliosa, ramulis plus minus elongatis distichis expansis vel 

 homomallis erectis, subflexuosis apicem versus attenuatis, 

 stolonibus raris. Folia caulina dense conferta, squarrosa, 

 e cordato lanceolata, ramulina obovato-lanceolata, conca- 

 va margine plana, pluries et irregulariter sulcata, ad ba- 

 sin usque argute serrata, costa in apicem producta, ver- 

 miculari- ad angulos rectangulo-reticulata. Flores pseudo- 

 monoici, masculi in plantulis annuis plantae femineae ra- 

 diculis adhaerentibus Perichaetium squarrosum, albidum, 

 foliis internis semivaginantibus apiculo elongato recurvo, 

 omnibus ecostatis Calyptra longiuscula, longius persi- 

 stens. Capsula alte pedicellata, elongato - oblonga, cylin- 

 dracea, plus minusve arcuata, operculi rostro longissimo. 

 Annulus latissimus. Peristomii dentés longi, intus lamel- 

 losi, ciliola bina ta et ternata appendiculata. 



