form male flowers. Leaves small, more or less distant, rarely sub-
contiguous, obliquely incubons, patent or ereoto-patent, subquadrate,
usually more than half or to tlie middle palmitifid, segments 4,
very rarely 5 or G, subulate, subacuminate incurved, uncinate, at
the base 3-5 cells broad, the two middle ones broadest, postical
shorter ; cells medium size, subquadrate-hexagonal, a little elongate,
subpelluoid, walls thin, sometimes with the angles slightly
thickened, branch leaves smaller 3, 4-fid, upper ones longer and
narrower, profoundly bifid. Stipules shorter than the leaves, subrotund
to subquadrate, divided to about the middle, segments 4
rarely 5 and more rarely 6, broadly subulate, obtuse, incurved.
Androecia spicate at the apex of delicate lateral branches, rarely
at base, more rarely on short postical branches ; perigonial bracts,
3-10 pairs, slightly smaller than the leaves, imbrioate, concave,
swollen, bilobed, rarely with an additional antical basal tooth, lobes
ovate, acute, incurved ; bracteole subquadrate, longer than broad,
bi-trilobed, antheridia solitary, large, oval, shortly stipitate.
Habitat. Creeping loosely amongst mosses and other hepatics
on steep banks or rooks. Rare.
7. Tyn-y-Groes, Merionethshire, W. II. P., April 1879. 8.
Kinder Scout, Derbyshire, .7. Whitehead and G. A. Holt, March 1884.
12. Borrowdale, Cumberland, JF. II. P., Skelwith Bridge, Westmorland,
JF. H. P. 13. New Galloway,/. McAndrew. 16. Banks
of Loch Maree, Argyle, Dr. Carrington, October, 1889, Moidart,
West Inverness, 8.31. WLacvicar, 1898, JF. H. P., 1899. Norway.
D imensions.—Stems 1 to 2 inches long, 2 mm. in diameter,
with leaves ’5 mm. wide; leaves '55 mm. x '45 mm. middle segment,
'35 mm., '4 mm. x '4 mm. seg., '2 mm., '4 mm. x '3 mm. seg.,
•2 mm., '5 mm. x Amm. seg., '25 mm., '4 mm. x A5 mm. seg., '2
mm. : cells '033 mm., '05 mm. x '03 mm., '025 mm. x '035 mrn.,
•04 mm. x -025 mm., ’045 mm. x '03 mm. ; stipules A mm. x •4mm.,
■275 mm. x '3 mm. ; segments '1 mm., '35 ram. x ■375 mm. seg.,
■15 mm., '3 mm. x '35 mm. seg., '15 mm. ; perigonial bracts '4 mm.,
■475 mm. x '3 mm. seg., '225 mm., '35 mrn. x '3 mm. seg., ■15 mm.,
■4 mm. x '4 mm. seg., 'lô mm. ; perigonial bracteole '2 mm. x '2
mm. segments, '075 mm. : antheridia O ’ ’ '13 ram. x ‘11 mm.
O bs.—“Lepidozia Pearsoni is well distinguished from L. reptans
by the following characters.
“ In L. Pearsoni the whole plant is very slender and elongate,
and of a pale tawny colour. Stems distantly pinnate, without
any rooting flagella from the underside. Leaves small, those of
the stem usually distant, or at most contiguous, cloven to beyond
the middle into 4, sometimes (though rarely) into 5 or 6, subulate
subaouminate segments. Stipules cloven to the middle into 4, or
not unfreqnently into 5, more rarely into 6, subulate obtuse segments.
Inflorescence dioicous. Male spikes terminal (rarely
basal) on the lateral branches ; very rarely indeed on a short
postical ramulus.
“L. reptans is of a more robust habit, with shorter, more closely-
branched stems ; of a deep green colour -when fresh, often turning
blueish-white, or glaucous, in drying. Leaves subimbrioated,
cloven only half-way into never more than 4 segments, which are
4-7 cells wide at the base ; cells broad as long. Stipules with
acute segments, which are never more than 4 in number even on
the main stem, and are sometimes reduced to 3. The chief distinction,
however, is in the monoicous inflorescence, with the male
flowers uniformly in short catkins springing from the underside of
the stem (which is their normal position on nearly every other Phi-
lepidozia known to us, except L. Pearsoni).” R. Spruce.
D escription oe P late XLV.—Pig. 1. Plants natural size. 2.
Portion of stem, antical view x 11. 3-6. Leaves from main stem
and branch x 64. 7. Portion of leaf x 290. 8, 9. Stipules x
64. 10. Stipule x 31. 11, 12. Perigonial bracts x 64. 13.
Perigonial bract x 31. 14. Perigonial bracteole x 85. 15.
Antheridium x 85. (All drawn from specimens collected at Tyn-
y-Groes, N. Wales, JF. I I . P.).