LESKEA DENTICULATA, Sulliv.
Tab. 78.
Plantæ tenellæ, cæspitulos nitidos læte virides formantes.
Caulis subuncialis, repcns, divisus, radiculosus, vage ramosus; ramis ramulisque compressiuscule foliosis.
Folia 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.
Flores dioici? masculi ignoti.
Capsula 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.
Leskea denticulata, Sulliv. Musc. Alleghan. No. 62; Mosses U. States p. 59; Sulliv. & Lesqx. Musc. Bor.-Amer. Exsicc. (ed. 1), No. 245.
Hypnum fabroniæfolium, C. Müll. Synop. 2, p. 271.
Hab. Base of trees, Middle and Southern States.—Not uncommon, but very seldom in fruit.
TAB. 78.—Leskea denticulata.
1. Plantæ naturali magnitudine.
2. Planta capsuligera.
3. Pars rami.
4. 5, 6. Folia ejusdem.
7. Folium areolationem exhibeus.
8, 9. Sectiones transversales folii.
10, 11. Perichætium, folia, etc.
12. Vaginula, archegonia, et paraphyses.
13, 14, 15. Capsulæ.
16, 17. Opereula.
