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:niew species of ckimmia. 
Caules breviusculi, erecti, siibsimplices, laxe caespitosi. 
Folia laxe imbricata, erecto-patentia, atro-viridia, ovata^ 
concava, nervo ad folii summitatem evanescentc ; pili su- 
perne longissimi (folia duplo vel imo triplo longior), infernc 
breves, aliquando siibnulli. 
Seta exserta, recta, brcvissima. 
Capsula ovata, riifo-fusca, rare summitate piloruni folio« 
rum altior, ore annulato. 
Opehculum brevi-rostratuiii oblusum. 
Peristomium breve, e dentibus 16 intense riifis perfoe 
Vatis. 
Calyptra niitriformis, acuminata, inasqualiter fissa. 
" Numerous are the species,'' says Dr Hooker, in 
Musci ExoTici, " (if such they may be called), of Grim- 
mia, bordering upon G. ovata and pidvinata, differing from 
each other in the various modifications of the leaves, the 
fruit-stalk, the capsule, and the operculum/"* The species 
I have just described must be added to the number of this 
nearly alhed series ; but I flatter myself, that, in G. Icnco- 
phtea, there are such striking marks for discrimination, that 
no confusion can possibly arise in regard to its future iden- 
tity. It ranks along with those species which have pili- 
ferous terminations to the leaves, and an exserted and 
erect fruit-stalk. They are few in number, even including 
varieties, and such are not described by Bridel or Schw^- 
GRiCHEN, If we then separate those which have lanceolate 
and subulate leaves, it will be found that there are only two 
with which the least confusion is likely to originate : viz. 
G' campestris of Burciiell, Hook. Muse. Exot. Tae. 
cxxix., a native of the Cape of Good Hope, where it grows 
in dry places on the ground ; and Campylopus kev'tgafm 
