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Rh LESKEA DENTICULATA, Sulliv.

Tab. 78.

tenellæ, cæspitulos nitidos læte virides formantes.

subuncialis, repcns, divisus, radiculosus, vage ramosus; ramis ramulisque compressiuscule foliosis.

conferta, subcomplanata, undique vergentia vel subsecunda, elliptico-lanceolata, brevius tenui-acuminata, tota margine denticulata, concava, ecostata, pcllucida, amoene areolata; areolis minutissimis oblongis, illis angulorum subquadratis.

dioici? masculi ignoti.

ovali-oblonga, in pedicello 2–4-lineari erecta, exannulata; peristomii dentibus lineali-lanceolatis remotius articulatis, interniciliis dentes fere sequantibus latiusculis in carina hiantibus, ciliolis omnino nullis; operculo e basi alte conica longius brevinsve rostrato; calyptra cuculliformi majuscula.

Base of trees, Middle and Southern States.—Not uncommon, but very seldom in fruit.

TAB. 78.—