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ovato- et oblongo-lanceolata, subpilifera, sulcata, semico- 

 stata, intégra vel summo apice obsolète serrulata. Péri- 

 chaetium squarrosum. Capsula parvula, turgide ovata, ba- 

 dia, aetate nigricans, solidiuscula, annulo angusto. 



Brachythecium aîbicans Br. et Schimp. Bryologia europaea VI, 

 p. 19, T. 553. — Schimp. Synops. Musc. eur. p. 534. 



Hypnum albicans Necker Method. Musc. pag. 180. sec. Brid. 

 Bryol. univ. II, p. 492. — G. Mùller Synops. II, p. 360.— 

 Weinm. Syllab. II, p. 473. 



Habit, in graminosis praeprimis arenosis, ad aggerum 

 et viarum latera; Goldb. legit; in Stepankovo quoque re- 

 peritur. Herb. Boschn. 



Fruct. matur. vere. Specim. fertilia in herb. Boschn. 



Sect. II. Capsulae pedicellus scaber. 



1. Br, velutina, 



3. Brachythecium velutinum Schpr. 



Caespites demissi plus minus intricati, in umbrosis lae- 

 te virides in apricis lutescentes, subsericei. Caulis repens, 

 divisus, irregulariter pinnato - ramulosus, ramulis saepius 

 apice incurvis. Folia minus dense conferta subfalcato - se- 

 cunda, ovato-laneeolata, longe et tenuiter acuminata, toto 

 margine serrulata, costa ultra médium proeedente, reti la- 

 xiore pertenui. Flores monoici. Capsula in pedicello pur- 

 pureo valde tuberculato cernua et horizontalis, turgide ova- 

 ta, e luteo fusca demum castanea, operculo magno con- 

 vexo-conieo mutico, annulo revolubili, sicca deoperculata 

 incurva sub ore constricta. Peristomii magni dentés rufo- 

 ochracei apice lutescentes intus sublamellosi, cilia perte- 

 nuia, processus pertusi. Sporae e viridi feerugineae. 



Brachythecium velutinum Br. et Sch. Bryol eur. VI, T. 538, p. 

 5. — Schimp. Synops. Musc. eur. p. 536. 



