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Matur, aestate. 
Planiae bi-triunciales, gracillimae, gregt^rie 
inter Sphagna degentes; caulis atro-riifus, nitidas, 
inferne subnudus, radiculis rufis, fasciculatis (fig. 
1, 2, 1 6. 2 b.), ramulis flagelliformibus. 
FoHa cauliiia iiiferiora valde remota, rainu- 
tissima et subsquamaeformia , ovato-acuaiioata (fig. 
3, 4, 5); superiora seiisiin majora et magis con- 
ferta, oblongo-lanceolata (fig. 6), summa in co- 
ruam polyphyllam conferta, longissima, lineali- 
lanceolata (fig. 7, 8, 9, 10), subcarinata, margine 
plana, costa cum apice evanida, crassiuscula, dorso 
folii valde prominente (fig. 8 x.), omnia late- 
scenti-vii idia , nitida, e cellulis oblongis, pacby- 
dermis (fig. 8 a. 8 a); ramulina oiiinia ovato- et 
oblongo-acuminata, conca va. 
Flores dioici: masculi subcapituliformes, po- 
lypbylli, perigonidlia externa e basi concava erecta 
patentia et lineali-lanceolata (fig. 2 h. fig. 11), 
interna, dimidio breviora, e basi concava ovata, 
lanceolata et acuminata, tenuia (fig. 12, 13), in- 
tima lanceolata, tenuissima, subenervia (fig. 15); 
antberidia magna, eparapbysata in axillis fulio- 
rum involiicralium (fig. 12, 13). Flos femineus 
gracillimus (fig. 17), bexapbjdius, pericbaetiali- 
bus trihus internis bievioribus lanceolatis, arclie- 
goniis 4 — 5, magnis, crassistylis, brevissime pa- 
rapliy satis (fig. 18). 
Capsula in pedicello capillari elongato nutans 
et pendula, oblongo-conica , pallide fei ruginea; 
Opercidiim huiiisciiliim, con vexo-conicum , rufo- 
aurantiacuni, paj)illa purpurea, siccitate late coni- 
cum (lig. 21). Annulus c cellulis byaliiiis sim- 
plicibiis (fig. 2'2). Peristominm Bryii nutantis; 
externi dentes pallide lutescenlcs, articulos 30 — 
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