Dimensions.— Stems 1 to 1|- ineli long, '4 mm. diameter
(young stems '25 mm.), with leaves 3' mm. wide; leaves 2 ’5 mm.
X 1-5 mm., segments -45 mm., 2-25 mm. x lA mm., seg. A mm.,
3- mm. x 1-75 mm., seg. A m m .; cells '08 mm. x '04 mm., '05 mm.
X -035 mm., -06 mm. x ’04 m m .; stipules 1- mm. x A mm., seg.
A mm.; sub-bracteoles lA mm. x '75 mm., seg. '75 mm.; bract
3-mm. x 1 A mm., seg. A mm., '4 mm., A mm. ; bracteole 2A mm.
X -25 mm., seg. A mm.; perianth 2'7o mm. x 1A5 mm.; pistillidia
T5 mm. x '06 m m .; perigonial bract 1'25 mm. x 1- mm., seg.
•2 mm., A m m .; perigonial bracteole A mm. x A mm., seg. A mm. ;
antheridia T5 min. x T25 mm.
H ab.—Grows in large spreading patches on walls, stones, earth
and rotting wood, in the plains and subalpine localities, usually in
shady situation.s. Common.
1 to 18. I.
Common on the Continent and in North America. Recorded
from the West Indies.
O b s. Distinguished from Lop>]iocolea ciispidata, Limpr. and
Loph. heferoplylla (Schrad.) by its dioicous inflorescence. Lophocolea
latifoha, Nees (Z. Llookeriana, Nees) is a variety with darker
green leaves of a firmer texture, usually growing in damper
situations, hut I cannot fix upon any character to separate it from
the type.
Desckibtion of P late C I.~ P ig . 1. Plants
natural size.
3 -5 . Leaves
Stipules X 24
X 16 (ditto).
2. Portion of young stem x 16 (Ashley, W. H. P.).
x 16 (ditto). 6. Portion of leaf x 290 (ditto). 7.
(ditto). 8. Sub-bracteole x 16 (ditto). 9, Bract
10. Bracteole x 16 (ditto). 11. Perianth x 16 (ditto). 12. Portion
of the mouth of perianth x 16 (ditto). 13. Pistillidium
85 (ditto). 14. Perigonial bract x 16 (G. & R. Hep. Eur.
630). 15. Perigonial bracteole x 16 (ditto).
X 85 (ditto).
16. Antheridium
2. liophoeolea cuspidata, Limpr.
Lophocolea hidentata, var. cuspidata, Nees Nat. E u r. Leb. 11, p. 327 (1836)
Lophocolea cuspidata, Limpricht in Cohn K ry p t. El. Schles. p. 303 (1876).
Monoicous, loosely cæspitose, of medium size, pale yellowish-
green in colour. Stems branched, branohes spreading, lateral sub-
postical; radiculose, rootlets few. Leaves imbricate, spreading,
horizontal or patent-divergent, antioal margin deourrent, ovate,
bifid to about ^ segments cuspidate, divergent or connivent, sinus
lunate; texture thin, cells medium size, 5- and 6- sided, walls
thin, trigones minute. Stipules oblong, bifid to below the middle,
with a shorter tooth on one or both of the outer margins, segments
subulate. Bracts oblong-subquadrate or semi-oval, bifid or trifid
from 1 to the middle, margin plane. Perianth projecting about
half beyond the bracts, cylindrical, acutely trigonous, third angle
antical, third face postical, mouth dentate. Pistillidia long.
Capsule oval, dark brown. Spores reddish-brown, about as broad
again as the dark brown elaters.
Androecia on long or short branches on the ? plant ; perigonial
bracts 5 -8 pairs, smaller than the stem leaves, ereoto-patent,
closely imbricate, ventricose at the base, trifid, the third antioal
segment smaller incurved, enclosing 1 or 2, rarely 3, almost
spherical antheridia.
Emits March, April.
Dimensions. Stems 1 to 2 incheslong, diameter A mm., with
leaves 3 ’ mm. wide; leaves lA mm. x IT mm., segments '4 mm. ;
cells -04 mm. x A5 mm., A35 mm. x '04 mm.. AS mm. x A3 mm.,
A4 mm. x A3 mm. ; stipules 1'25 mm. x '75 mm., seg. A mm.,
A mm. X -4 mm., seg. A mm.; bracts 2' mm. x A mm., seg.
1' mm. and '7 mm., 1'7 mm. x A mm., seg. A5 mm. and A mm.,
3- mm. x 1-4 mm., seg. '6 mm. and A mm.; sub-braoteole 2' mm.
X A mm.,seg. A mm.and 7 mm.; bracteole 3' mm. x 1'25 mm., seg.
A mm. and 7 mm. ; perianth 5' mm. x L25 mm. ; pistillidia '2 mm.
X A75 mm., -225 mm. x A6 mm. ; perigonial bracts 1'2 mm.
X A mm., seg. A mm; antheridia T1 mm. x T ram.