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Rh HYPNUM LÆTUM, Brid.

Tab. 115.

laxe intricato-cæspitosao; cæspitibus extebsis leniter tumcsccntibus e viridi lutcscentibus sericeo-nitidis.

prostratus, divisus ; ramis ramulisquc plus minus approximatis inæqualibus erectis subsciuroideis apice attenuatis.

conferta, undique erecto-patentia, e basi ovata concava marginibus late recurva lanceolata, in acumen rectum brevius longiusve sensim angustata, plus minus striata, toto fere ambitu leniter serrulata; costa ultra medium procedente; reti tenui elliptico-lineari, cellulis ad angulos basilares subquadrates numerosis granulosis: perichætialia numerosa, membranacea, mollia, intima laxe vaginantia oblonga ex apice abrupto filiformi-acuminata, acumine varie flexo.

dioici: feminei plerumque cauligeni; masculis supra ramulorum basin sitis; paraphysibus in utroque flore copiosis.

in pedicello subunciali purpureo laevi oblongo-cylindracea, curvula, leniter inclinata, vel brevior turgida erecto-cernua, pachyderma, exannulata, badia; operculo elongato-conico vel conico brevi-rostrato; peristomii dentibus lanceolato-subulatis luteis densius articulatis, ciliis rimulosis punctatis, ciliolis binis nodosis.

On decayed logs and the ground, in moist shaded places; common.