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sicca julacea, appressa, omnia margine recurva. Theca vetusta pli- 
cata; Mitten 1. c. pag. 415. 
3. A. rubricaulis Mitten, Musci austro-americani, pag. 415. 
Folia patnla, snbsquarrosa, concava, marginibus fere ad apicem 
reflexis recurvisque, nerve nltra medium evanido, cellulis basi ad 
margines pluribus oblatis, superioribus omnibus minutis, ■ ovoideis; 
perichætialia externa spathulata , subulato-acuminata, interna obo- 
vata obtusa, retusave, vaginantia; nervo longe excurrente. Theca 
sessilis leptoderma, operculo conico-acuminato; peristomii dentibus 
elongatis, subulatis, tenerrime papillosis obscuris; calyptra apice 
scabra. 
In Brasilia centrali ad arbores leg. Claussen, Danicus; ab 
amico Bauer, Berolinensi, accepi. 
Ab A. julacea dilfert; statura robustiore, foliis latioribus, 
marginibus fere ad apicem recurvis, cellulis minoribus, perichætiali- 
bus latioribus, vaginantibus. 
Speciem quartam Americæ tropicæ paucis verbis adde: 
4. A. Caripensis Hpe. Minor, vix uncialis, gracilior, peri- 
stomio brevi semper connivente, dentibus rimoso-pertusis. 
Inter Cryphæam filiformem prope C ari p am legit Moritz. 
Gen. Cryphæa Rridel. 
1. C. Blumenauiana Hpe. herb. 
Minor, fusco-viridis, laxe repens. Caulis julaceus adscendens 
1— 1 ^/ 2 -uncialis, subpinnatim ramosus, ramis obtusiusculis, fasti- 
giatis. Folia brevia, concava, squarroso-patula, sicca accumbentia, 
e basi subcordata ovata, latere parce revo luta, acumiuata, integerrima; 
nervo pallido supra medium folii evanido; cellulis minimis, alaribus 
dense aggregatis, rotundatis, griseis, tandem pellucidis, mediis ovali- 
bus, dense seriatis, antice minimis densius aggregatis papillatis; peri- 
chætium parvulum laterale, folia convoluta, membranacea, late oblonga, 
subspathulata integerrima; nervo pallido percursa, cuspidata, cellulis 
basilaribus teneris sub-parallelogrammicis acutis, superioribus ellip- 
