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Rh METEORIUM PENDULUM, Sulliv.

Tab. 73.

filiformes, ramosissiraæ, longissimaæ, pendulaæ, laxe intricataæ, fiavo-virides.

basi brevius subpinnatim ramosa repcns, debinc in ramos 8–10-unciales distanter brevi-ramulosos tenuissimos flexiles dependentes divisas.

haud conferta, undique erecto-patentia (ilia ramorum baseos majora complanata), lineari-lanceolata, sensim filiformi-attenuata, rectiuscula, firmula, opaca, dorso papillosa, margine serrulato leniter recurva, ad medium usque costata, minute lineari–fusiformi-areolata; areolis ad baseos angulos amplioribus subquadratis: folia perichætii parvula laxa vaginulam longipilam vix tegentia, laxius texta, ceteroquin rameis similia.

dioici? masculi ignoti; feminei prope ramorum et ramulorum basin positi.

minuta, ovalis, in pedicellum paulo longiorem defluens; peristomii duplicis dilute aurescentis dentibus deltoideo-linealibus remotius nodoso-articulatis plus minus perforatis vel in linea divisuriali disruptis, ciliis paululum brevioribus carinatis e membrana plicata latiuscula ortis, ciliolis omnino nullis; operculo conico oblique brevirostro; calyptra juniore elongato-conica; sporis majusculis.

On trees and bushes, Western Louisiana, Teintarier, Riddell.

Infertile specimens of another species of this genus (probably M. nigrescens, D. & M.) have been recently found in Florida.