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Rh HYPNUM BOSCH, Schwægr.

Tab. 106.

robustiores, molles, e viridi aureo-fusccscentes, cæspites demissos laxos formantes.

prostratus, 2–4 uncias longus, vetustior fragilis sub-defoliatus, parce divisus, fasciculato- vel subpinnato-ramulosus; ramulis elongatis subsimplicibus iuaequalibus obtusis turgide tereti-foliosis.

arete imbricata, e basi eordata amplexante oblongo-ovata, repente filiformi-apiculata, coclileariformi-concava, scariosa, nitida, breviter bicostata, vel costa unica tenui ultramedia instructa, marginibus erectis toto ambitu serrulata, exilissime lineari-areolata; cellulis basilaribus brevioribus incrassatis fuscoluteis: perichætialia longe tenui-acuminata, inferiora squarrosa, superiora erecta.

dioici; feminei paraphysibus filiformibus copiosis mixti; masculi ignoti.

oblonga, erecto-incurva, annulata; pedicello subunciali lævi; peristomii dentibus lanceolato-subulatis dense articulatis, ciliis carina pertusis, ciliolis ternis; operculo conico brevius rostrato.

On the ground, in hilly and wooded districts: not uncommon, but rarely in fruit.

Hypnum Boscii in general appearance, and in shape, texture, areolation, and position of the leaves, very much resembles those