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ICONES MUSCORUM.
A common and variable species, very like Leskea nervosa, Myrin, of which only sterile specimens have been found in this country, on the mountains of New England. In L. nervosa the leaves have a longer and more narrow acumination; the inflorescence also is different, being dioicous.
TAB. 77.—Leskea obscura.
1. Plantæ naturali magnitudine.
2. Ramus.
3. Pars caulis defoliates, cum perichaetio et floribus masculis.
4. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Folia.
10. Folium areolationem monstrans.
11, 12. Sectiones transversales folii.
13, 14. Capsulæ.
15. Operculum et calyptra.
1G. Calyptra.
17. Operculum.
18. Particula peristomii.
19. Sectio verticalis ejusdem.
20. Flos masculus.
21. 22. Folia perigonialia.
23. Autheridium.
