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pedunculo longiusculo tenuissimo flavido exserta erecta minuta 
elliptica utrinque obtusiuscula in rostrum longiusculum tenue 
recurvo-obliquum attenuata; calyptra glabra. 
Patria. Paraguay, Yuguaron, ad vias cavas, Julio 1879: 
B. Balansa, No. 3657. 
Quoad habitum weisioideum, staturam rainutam teneram, 
folia weisioidea atque tliecam recurvirostram facile cognoscenda 
species. 
11. Phascum (Schizophascum) disruinpens n. sp.; gre- 
garium nanum Simplex gemmaceuni pottiaceum; folia parva in 
gemmulam minutam dense congesta pauca, late rotundato- 
ovata brevissime apiculata cochleariformia concava integerrima 
margine erecta, nervo teniii flavido ante apiculum obtusiuscu- 
lum evanido percursa, e cellulis basi majusculis laxis teneris 
mollibus apicem versus sensim minoribus pellucidis hexagonis 
reticulata; tlieca in pedunculo pro plantula longiusculo rubente 
stricto erecta turgide elliptica oblique longiuscule rostrata liic 
illic maturitate disrumpendo evacuata; calyptra dimidiata brevis 
glabra; sporae majusculae fusco-rubrae leves. 
Patria. Australia, Victoria, Moyston: Sullivan 1882. 
Hb. Melbourne. 
Species memorabilis, quoad habitum Pottiam latifoliam 
liaud male referens, liabitu gemmaceo, foliis rotundatis coch- 
leariformibus atque capsula disiumpente sectionem propriam 
(Schizophascum) sistens. 
12. Phascum (Leptophascum) leptophjllum n. sp.; gre- 
garie cespitulosum pusillum subacaule vel altius simplex pallide 
virens; folia convolutacea subcrispata madore deplanata parum 
recurvata veluti rosulam minutam sistentia valde patula remo- 
tiuscula, e basi valde angustata spatlmlato-ovata breviter acu- 
minata brevissime fusco-mucronata carinato-concava, nervo te- 
nuissimo ante apicem evanido percursa, margine ubique erecto 
cellulis prominentibus minute crenulata, e cellulis hexagonis 
parvis basi majoribus plus minus pellucidis mollibus pro more 
punctato-chlorophyllosis eleganter reticulata tenera; theca in 
pedicello tenuissimo brevi immersa majuscula turgescenti-elli- 
ptica in rostrum distinctum obliquum attenuata fuscata, calyptra 
parva dimidiata, 
Patria. Promontorium bonae spei. Somerset East, monte 
Boschberg, cum Ephemero Capensi, Ephemerella Rehmanni 
et Phasco peraristato vigens: Prof. Mac Owan 1882. 
