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 *brane, bi-trifid; lid rostellate; leaves soft broad, papillose at back. 58.

[double dagger][double dagger] Caps. sub-erect, rather unequal.

(15). Caps. ovate-oblong, or obliquely sub-pyriform, smooth, teeth lanceolate, connivent, dilated at base, entire or cleft to base, sometimes barred, deep red; lid rostrate. 39.

(14). Caps. oval or almost turbinate, striate, contracted below the wide mouth when dry; teeth lanceolate subulate, cleft, or perforate and entire, bars not prominent; lid large, obliquely rostrate. 39.

[double dagger][double dagger][double dagger] Caps. cernuous or inclined, unequal.

(16). Caps. mostly cernuous, smooth or striated, regular, gibbous or curved, with a tapering apophysis, or sometimes strumose, teeth equidistant, confluent at base, incurved, lanceolate, cleft half way into unequal portions, barred, occasionally perforate, with a medial line; lid rostrate oblique; leaves of close texture, nerved and more or less secund; areolation linear at the base. 40.

[ Plant smaller than in Dicranum, and less robust, areolation rectangular at the base, in other respects similar.]

(17) Caps., lid and peristome as in Dicranum. Leaves spongy, composed of a double layer of loose cellular tissue, white or pale glaucous green, sub-secund, nerve indistinct. 49.

(71). Caps. cernuous or erect, more or less