HYPNUM OAKESII, Sulllv.
Tab. 102.
Plantæ majores, in cæspitibus depresso-tumescentibus late longeque extensis e viridi lutescentibus degentes.
Caulis 3–4-uncialis, innovationibus arcuatis annuatim repetitis continiians, remote irregulariter subpinnato-ramulosus; ramis et ramulis compressiuscule foliosis.
Folia caulina late ovata, patentia, baud conferta; ramea ramulinaque nitida, laxe incumbentia, erecto-patentia, subelliptico-oblonga, plus minus distincte complanata; omnia concava,brevius longiusve acuminata, margine usque ad apicem fere recurva, superne irregulariter grosse serrata, ad medium tenui-costata, minute lineari-hexagono-areolata, plus minusve sulcato-striata; paraphylliis numerosis ramosissimis: perichætialia ecostata, ad medium erecto-vaginantia, dehinc squarroso-reflexa, longe attenuata, argute serrata.
Flores dioici : femineis cauligenis haud numerosis; masculis ad ramorum basin; antheridiis copiose paraphysatis.
Capsula in pedicello lóngo tenui superne arcuato turgide gibboso-ovata, pachyderma, deorsum spectans, vix annulata; peristomii dentibus basi confluentibus e lineali subulatis dense articulatis, ciliis in carina hie illic hiantibus, ciliolis 2–4 longis; operculo convexo-conico cum rostro brevi.
Hypnum Oakesii, Sulliv. in Gray, Man. Bot. p. 673 (1848), & Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 4, p. 173, t. 5; C. Müll. Synop. 2, p. 461.
Hypnum fimbriatum, Hartm. Scand. Flora (1849); C. Müll. Synop. 2, p. 461.
Hypnum Pyrenaicum, Spruce in Ann. Nat. Hist. 3, p. 129, t. 1 (1849); C. Müll. Synop. 2, p. 456.
Hylocomium fimbriatum, Bryol. Europ. t. 489.
Hylocomium Oakesii, Schimp. Synop. Musc. Europ. p. 654.
Hab. White Mountains of New Hampshire, Oakes, James.