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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. 1668) et ad 
Lagoa Santa m. Martio Warming. ) 
Priori affine, sed multo gracilius, theca turgide ovata incli- 
nata, demum pendula suburceolata, olore et foliis caulinis 
differt; nec cum H. acrorrhizo confundendum. 
b. Calyptra glabra. 
T7. Chryso-Hypnum campaniforme Hpe., n. sp. 
Monoicum, late expansum gracile, vage repens, ramosissi- 
mum, fusco-lutescens, 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 pellucidis aut 
granulato-diaphanis, cellulis lateralibus longioribus, intermediis 
densius aggregatis parallelogrammis, omnibus nodulis lucidis se- 
riatim interruptis, in acumine folii conflatis; ramorum folia disti- 
the erecto-patula, angustiora, ovata, breviter lanceolato-acuminata, 
concava, latere reflexo-plicata, cellulis marginalibus prominentibus 
denticulata; nervo brevi furcato obsoleto, cellulis foliorum cauli- 
»orum c&mulantibus, sed magis noduloso-punctatis, scabriuscula; 
perichetialia pauca pallida, erecto-patentia, brevia, basi vaginante 
obovata, abrupte acuminata, integerrima, enervia; cellulis sub- 
hexagonis laevibus byaline reticulata, in acumine cellulis conflatis 
