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mis, abbreviatis, pellucidis, in acumine quasi pilum coloratum 
referente condensatis minus conspicuis; perichetialia conformia, 
interiora longius piliforme acuminata, cellulis laxius - reticulata, 
vaginantia. Seta gracillima, ramis duplo superans (6^ radicalis, 
rufescens, adscendens.  Theca minuta, sub ore constricta, obo- 
vata, rubra, inclinata, demum nutans; operculo pallido, promi- 
nente convexo, aciculo tenui rubro, thecam superante terminato, 
Peristomium duplex, dentibus rubris siccis, incurvis, lanceolato- 
subulatis, dense trabeculatis, valde cristatis, linea. media notatis; 
inter. membrana flavicans, cruribus carinatis, remote trabeculatis, 
ciliis solitariis brevioribus subulatis, arliculatis interpositis. Ca- 
lyptra angusta, cucullata pallida. 
Lagoa Santa, ad truncos putridos, m. Jun. (Warming). 
Adnot. Hypno microcarpo C. M. (Leskee adnate Rich.) prox- 
imum; differt foliis longioribus, piliforme acuminatis, toto mar- 
gine revolutis, theca valde minuta, deoperculata, maxime con- 
stricta, et peristomio. 
An huc Leskea adnata Fl. Brasiliensis ? 
87. R.-Hypnum Kegelianum C. M., Synops. 
Stirps valde variabilis, prope Lagoa Santa m. Febr. Apr. 
et ad Juiz de fora, m. Junio a Warming lecta: 
4) forma tenuis: gracilior, ramis longioribus curvatis, lutescente 
viridibus. 
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29) forma minor: Siemersiana, ramis brevibus incurvatis lute- 
scentibus, foliis homomallis; super corticem arborum repens. 
88. R.-Hypnum substrumiferum Hpe., n. Sp. 
Monoicum, dense cespitosum, vix unciale, rufescente niti- 
dum. Caulis breviter ramosus, ramis brevibus turgidis, curvatis, 
acutis, minime compressis, dense foliatis. — Folia plus minusve 
accumbentia, undique imbricata, in ramis curvatis subhomomalla, 
concava, oblongo-ovata, inferiora breviter, superiora magis acumi- 
nata, apice recurva, marginibus reflexis integerrima; enervia, vel 
nervo brevi unico, vel furcato pallido, vix conspicuo, obsoleto 
