Extrait du Bulletin de VHerbier Boissier, 2"* serie. — Tome VIII (1908). 



N° 4. 



2. Zoopsis setulosa Leitgeb Nat. Yerein fur Sleierm., 1876. 



Dioica mediocris pallide virens vel flavicans in terra humida dense 

 pulvinata. Caulis ad 3 cm. longus vage multiramosus ramis primariis vulgo 

 lateralibus secundariis semper posticis. Flagella nuda postica radicanlia, 

 alia ex apice ramorum orta; cellulse corticales anticse biseriatse maximse 

 triplo latiores quam Iong8e,posticsequadriserialae quarum medianse multo 

 minores; cellulae axiales 16 seriatae anguslissima?, caulis itaque plano- 

 biconvexus plus duplo latior quam crassus. Folia caulina omnino lateralia 

 remotiuscula plano-disticha recte palula, 2 cellulis magnis inflato-conicis 

 formata et quasi biloba, cellulis basi tantum connatis obtusis apice seti- 

 feris, setulis bicellularibus Iransverse insertis hamatis folio sequilongis. 

 Amphigastria caulina valde rudimentaria, cauli appressa, cellulis basalibus 

 quatuor, quarum binae magna cellula tertia coronalae. Folia floralia bijuga 

 ovata cum amphigaslrio sequimagno alle coalita apice biloba lobis longe 

 acuminatis utrinque pluripilosis apice setaceis. Perianthia erecta magna 

 ovato-oblonga bistrata apice tenera plicatim contracta ore profunde sex- 

 lobato lobis minule setulosis; cellulae rectangulares duplo et triplo lon- 

 giores quam latse in lobisapicalibus angustissimae. Calyptra tenera libera. 

 Capsula in pedicello longiusculo Iate elliptica. Sporae brunnese 18 ]l 

 papillatae.E/a^m 150 (j. vermiculares spiris 2 ligulatis validis laxe lortis. 

 Androecia in ramulis minulis spicata bracteis5-6jugiscontiguis cucullalis 

 profunde emarginato-bilobis, lobis incurvis anlheridio giganteo appressis 

 apice cellula magna apiculatis. 



Hab. Australia orientalis (Kirton, Bauerlen, Watts, Forsyth, Schauinsland, 

 New Zealand (Colenso), Amboina (Karsten), Nova Guinea (Loria). 

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