HOMALOTHECIUM SUBCAPILLATUM, Schimp.
Tab. 90.
Plantæ tenellæ, intricato-cæspitosae, magnitudine ac vegetandi modo Pylaisæas præcedentes valde referentes.
Caulis prostratus, subuncialis, vage divisus; ramis ramulisque brevibus numerosis adscendentibus subtereti-foliosis.
Folia undique erecto-patentia, baud conferta, imbricantia, concava, ovalia vel subobovata, repentine longius tenui-acuminata, margine anguste subrecurva serrato-dentata; costa ad medium evanescente; reti e cellulis rhomboideo-ellipticis, illis angulorum numerosis quadratis: perichætialia interiora vaginantia, oblonga, sensim longe acuminata, apice dentata.
Flores dioici cauligeni: masculi gemmacei; antheridiis paraphysatis.
Capsula cylindraceo-oblonga, plus minusve incurva, in pedicellum 4–5-linearem scabrum (in icone false lævem delineatum) defluens; vaginula pilis e perichætio longe eminentibus obsita; perist. ext. dentibus longiusculis sublinealibus dense articulatis basi confluentibus linea divisuriali flexuosa notatis cuticulaque dorsali late hyalino-marginatis, perist. int. membrana tenuissima obscura dentibus adbserente, operculo e basi alte convexo-conico longius rostrato; calyptra dimidiata ad mediam capsulam descendente pilis raris longiusculis instructa.
Homalothecium subcapillatum, Schimp. Bryol. Univ.; Sulliv. Mosses U. States, p. 63, t. 5.
Pterigynandrum subcapillatum, Hedw. Sp. Musc. p. 83, t. 16, f. 9–12,
Pterogonium decumbens, Schwægr. Suppl. t. 110.
Pterogonium ascendens, Schwægr. op. cit. t. 243.
Hypnum subcapillatum, C. Müll. Synop. Musc. 2. p. 352.
