Genus. 9. MASTIGOPHOB.A, Nees.
Jungermania, Brid. Mss. Web.-F. Inst. musc. hep. prodr, p. 50, n. 49, (1815);
Hook. Brit. Jung. p. 18, n. 64 (1816).
Jungermania, sect. 2, Blepharozia, Dum. Syll. Ju n g . Bur. p. 46, p. p. (1881).
Jungermania, sect. 12, Plumulosai, Hüben. Hep. Germ. p. 265, p. p. (1834).
Mastigophm-a, Nees. Nat. Bur. Leb. 1. p. 05, n. 3, et p. 101, n. 10, p. p. (1833);
in Lindl. Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 2 ed. p. 414 (1835), et Nat. Eur. Leb. 3,
p. 89, n. 1 (1838); Mitt, in Hook.-F. Handb. N.-Zeal. PI, 2, pp. 752 et 754,
n. 18-2 (1867).
Mastigophm-a, sect. 2, Gladura, Nees Nat. Eur. Leb. 8, suppl. p. 574 (1838).
Blepiharozia, Dum. Eecueil, 1. p. 16, n. 15, p.p. (1835).
Sendin&i-a, Endl. Gen. pl., 1. suppl. p. 1342, n. 472-16 (1840).
Sendtnera, sect. 2, Mastigophora, G. L. N. Syn. Hep. p. 241 (1845).
Herberta, Carruth, in. Seem. Journ. Bot. 3, p. 300, p. p. (1865).
Branches lateral, furcate or dichotomous, rarely simple, apices
attenuate, decurved, secund. Leaves incubous, bifid to quadrifid,
often calcarate at the base. Perianth produced from near the
apex of the stem on a short, almost sessile lateral branch, sometimes
on a longer branch, membranous, tubular, trisuloate, mouth
denticulate. Calyptra delicate, membranous. Capsule firm,
dividing to its base into 4 valves. Elaters dispiral.
Mastigophora Woodsii (Hook.), Nees.
Jungermania Woodsii, Hook. Brit. Jung. t. 66 (1816).
Blepharozia Woodsii, Dum. Eecueil, p. 16 (1885).
Mastigophm-a Woodsii, Nees Nat. Eur. Leb. I l l , p. 05 (1838).
Sendtnera Woodsii, G. L. N. Syn. Hep. p. 241 (1844).
Inflorescence (?), loosely cæspitose, very large, reddish to
purplish-brown in colour, paler below. Stem ligneous, somewhat
brittle when dry, reddish-brown, composed of thick-walled cells,
cortical, similar in size to the inner, only slightly darker, about 30,
inner brownish 1 0 x 1 0 ; flexuose, procumbent, bi-tripinnate,
branches lateral, branchlets long, attenuate; rootlets few, proceeding
from the attenuate branchlets, hyaline, delicate. Leaves
patent-divergent to patent, bifarious, imbricate, very convex, con-
duplicate, roundish or broadly subquadrate, unequally bilobed to
below the middle, antical smaller, lobes spinulose dentate, sinus
acute or slightly rounded ; cells smallish, roundish-quadrate
margin irregular, walls thick, angles thickened. Stipules very
large, considerably broader than the stem, broadly ovate, divided
to about the middle, segments broadly subulate, acute, irregularly
spinulose, sinus obtuse, at both sides of their base calcarate.
Neither male nor female flowers have been observed.
D imensions.—Stems 2 to 6 inches long, diameter ’2 mm., with
leaves 1'5 mm. wide; branches with leaves 75 m.m. wide ; leaves
IT mm. x l'5mm. ; segments 75 mm., ’6 mm., "9 mm. x l'2mm.
seg., '6 mm., '5 mm.; branch leaves 75 mm. x '85 mm., seg.
•4 mm. ; cells '08 mm. x 0-2 mm., '020 mm. x '0.25 mm. ; stipules
■9 mm. X '9 mm., segments '55 mm., '8 mm. x ’6 mm., seg. '4 mm.,
7 mm. X '6 min., seg. '45 mm. ; branch stipules A mm. x '8 mm.,
seg. A mm.
H ab.—^Growing in large and rather densely crowded patches
in boggy places or damp banks and rocks, in subalpine localities.
Extremely rare. Discovered by Mr. Joseph Woods in 1809 on the
ascent of Mangerton from Cwm na Cappal, Ireland. Brandon
Mountain, Hr. Taylor, W. Wilson. Devil’s Punch Bowl, Mangerton,
Dr. Taylor, Stewart and Holt. Conner Hill, Dingle,
Dr. D. Moore. Carrantual, Br. B. Moore. South of Ireland.
16. Moidart, West Inverness, S. M. Macvicar, 1898. 17.
Faroe Isles, liostrup, 1867. Himalayas (fide Mitten).
Ob s .—This fine, beautiful and extremely rare species is
remarkably distinct, and not to be confounded with any of our
native ones, except perhaps Blepharozia ciliaris, which might be
mistaken for it, but from which it differs in the shape, margin,
and structure of the leaves and stipules.
D escription o f P late XXXVII.—Pig. 1. Plants natural size
(Mangerton, Holt). 2. Portion of stem, antioal view (after
Hooker). 3. Leaf (ditto). 4-6. Leaves x 24 (Mangerton, Holt).
7. Branch leaf x 24 (ditto). 8. Portion of leaf x 290 (ditto).
9-11. Stipules X 24 (ditto). 12. Stipule (after Hooker). 13.
Branch stipule x 24 (Mangerton, Holt).