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scente diaphana. Seta adscendens pallide rubens, vel fuscata, 
apice incurvata. Theca turgide ovata obliqua, inclinata, sub ore 
urceolato-constricta, demum pendula fuscata opaca; operculo 
crasso convexo-conico, breviter oblique acuminato, pallidiore. Peri- 
stomium crassum; dentibus aurantiacis, dense trabeculatis, linea 
media notatis, lanceolatis, subulato-acuminatis, apice densius 
torulosis pallidis; inter. membrana lutescens, cruribus carinatis 
subulato-acuminatis, integris, remote trabeculatis, ciliis e cruri¬ 
bus binis connatis, lanceolato-subulatis, interdum apice secedente 
bifidis, remote articulatis pallidis. Calyptra pilosa. 
Jn vicinia Rio de Janeiro, leg. Glaziou (no. 1665) et ad 
Lagoa Santa m. Martio Warming, 
Priori affine, sed multo gracilius, theca turgide ovata incli- 
nata, demum pendula suburceolala, colore et foliis caulinis 
differt; nec cum H. acrorrhizo confundendum. 
b. Calyptra glabra. 
77. Chryso-Hypnum campaniforme Hpe,. n. sp. 
Monoicum, late expansum gracile, vage repens, ramosissi- 
mum, fusco-Iutescens, nitidum. Caulis elongatus, dense pinnatim 
ramosus, apice attenuatus, radicans ramisque brevibus compressis, 
plusminusve distiche foliatis. Folia caulina e basi latere parce 
impresso-plicata, cordata, acuminata, subintegerrima; nervo fur- 
cato brevi obsoleto; cellulis alaribus subquadratis pelIucidis aut 
granulato-diaphanis, cellulis lateralibus longioribus, intermediis 
densius aggregatis parallelogrammis, omnibus nodulis lucidis se- 
riatim interruptis, in acumine folii conflatis; ramorum folia disti¬ 
che erecto-patula, angustiora, ovata, breviter lanceolato-acuminata, 
concava, latere reflexo-plicata, cellulis marginalibus prominentibus 
denticulata; nervo brevi furcalo obsoleto, cellulis foliorum cauli- 
norum æmulantibus, sed magis noduloso-punctatis, scabriuscula; 
perichætiaiia pauca pallida, erecto-patentia, brevia, basi vaginante 
obovata, abrupte acuminata, integerrima, enervia; cellulis sub- 
hexagonis lævibus hyaline reticulata, in acumine cellulis conflatis 
