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nitidis ; caulis usque ad 5 mm altus , basi fusco-radiculosus , superne 

 comoso-foliosus, innovando ramosus; folia flaccida, sicca erecto-patentia, 

 singula contorta, humida patentia, longe decurrentia, e basi angustata 

 elongate oblongo-lanceolata, anguste-acuminata, nervo excedente aristata, 

 marginibus erectis, summo apice minute denticulatis vel subintegris, 

 limbata, limbo 2—3 seriato, aetate rufescente, nervo aetate rufescente, 

 plus minusve longe in aristam recurvulam excedente, cellulis lepto- 

 dermibus, chlorophyllosis, oblongo-hexagonis, basilaribus rectangularibus ; 

 bracteae perichaetii intimae miuutae , ovato-triangulares , integrae , haud 

 limbatae, nervo infra apicem evanido; seta 2,5 — 3,5 cm alta, tenuis, 

 flexuosa, fusca, apicem late arcuatum versus vage torta; theca horizon- 

 talis— nutans, leptodermis , arcuato-clavato-pyriformis, cum collo elongato, 

 defluente, siccitate valde contracto et plicato c. 4 mm longa at c. 1,5 mm 

 crassa, pallide fusca, haud nitida; exostomii dentes e fundo luteo lance- 

 olati, subulato-acuminati, c. 0,44 mm longi et c. 0,05 mm lati, angustissime 

 limbati, lutei, glabri, apice hyalini, papillosi, scutulis humilibus, rectan- 

 gularibus, linea mediana flexuosa, lamellis densis sat humilibus, hie illic 

 septis singulis, obliquis, medianis conjunctis ; endostomium liberum, luteolum, 

 minutissime papillosum, membrana c. 0,12 mm alta, processibus carinatis, 

 anguste rimosis, ciliis ternis, bene evolutis, longe appendiculatis ; spori 

 0,020 — 0,025 mm, olivacei, minutissime papillosi. Caetera ignota. 



Pamir: N. 1405 ex p., pro v. Wakhan, near a rivulet at Sermut, 

 Sept. 21. 1898. 



Species distinctissima, B. calcareo Vent, ut videtur proxima; sed 

 inflorescentia ciliisque bene evolutis, appendiculatis jam dignoscenda. 



5. B. Schleicher! Schwaegr. 



Alai mountains: N. 490, near Olgin-Lug, in water, alt. c. 2600 m. 

 June 22. 1898. 



Var. latifolium Schimp. 



Alai mountains: N. 428, near Sufi Kurgan in a cold rivulet, alt. 

 c. 2100 m. June 18. 1898. 



Area: Mountains of Europe, Kaukasus, Himalaya, Central Asia, northern 

 countries of America. 



Bartram iaceae. 



Philonotis Brid. 

 Ph. calcarea (Bryol. eur.) Schimp. 



Alai mountains: N. 428 ex p., near Sufi Kurgan in a cold rivulet, 

 alt. c. 2100 m. June 18. 1898. 



Area: Europe, Caucasus, Himalaya, western and central Asia, northern 

 America. 



Botanisk Tidsskrift. 27. Bind. 14 



