2. Cephalozia pallida, Spruce.
Cephalozia catenulata var. pallida (Ceph. pallida nobis in hb.), Spruce, On
Cephalozia. (1882.)
Dioicous, cladocarpous, depresso-cæspitose, eflagelliferous, small,
pale green to yellowisli in colour. Stems much branched, branohes
suhfastigiate ; cortical cells 15, rather larger than the inner ones,
6, 6 cells in diameter. Leaves small, approximate, from patent-
divergent to erecto-patent, orbicular to oval-rotund, subdecurrent,
from a third to the middle bifid, rarely more, sinus obtuse, segments
acute or obtuse, connivent ; cells smallish to medium in
size, snbquadrate, walls thick, no trigones or thickened angles.
Stipules wanting. Bracts larger than the leaves, oval-rotund,
bifid to a third, segments acute or obtuse, margin entire, bracteole
similar, sub-bracts and sub-bracteole similar but much smaller.
Perianth projecting much beyond the bracts, linear-fusiform,
composed of a single layer of cells, obtusely trigonous, mouth
ciliolate or setulose, ciliola 2 cells long, (lalyptra moderately
coarse; pistillidia few, 8-tO. Capsule oval, dark-brown. Spores
pale yellow. Elaters slightly broader and of a darker colour,
loosely bispiral. Androecia on short postical branohes ; perigonial
bracts closely imbrioate, erect, oval-rotund, concave, bifid to about
a third, with usually a third smaller tooth near the middle, segments
acute ; antheridia oval.
D im e n s io n s .— S tem ^ in c h lo n g , T m m . in d iam ., w ith leaves
7 5 m m . w id e ; le av e s ’35 m m . x A m m ., s e gm e n ts ‘2 m m .,
•4 m m . X A m m ., seg. T75 m m ., ’4 m m . x A m m ., seg. '2 m m . ;
cells -03 m m . x '03 m m ., '03 m m . x ’025 m m ., '04 m m . x '03 m m . ;
s u b -b ra c ts '45 m m . x ’45 m m ., seg. T5 m m ., '5 m m . x '45 m m .,
seg. '2 m m ., '4 m m . x '25 m m ., seg. T5 mm. ; su b -b rao teo le
•45 m m . x -3 mm . ; b r a c ts -9 m m . x -7 m m ., seg. -3 m m ., ^8 m m . x
•7 m m ., seg. •S m m . ; b ra c te o le -75 mm. x -65 mm., seg . ^25 m m . ;
p e r ia n th 2- m m . x -65 m m ., 1-75 mm. x -6 m m ., t e e th a t th e m o u th
•05 m m . ; p is tillid ia -125 m m . x -025 m m . ; c a p su le -5 mm . x
•3 m m ., v a lv e o f c ap su le -85 m m . x -225 mm. ; sp o re s -01 mm. ;
e la te r s -1 m m . x -0115 m m . ; p e r ig o n ia l b r a c ts '5 m m . x -5 mm.,
seg. -2 mm.; perigonial bracteole -25 mm. x -1 mm.; antheridia
•15 mm. x -1 mm.
H a b . On turfy banks or moors, or on shady rocks. Eare.
9. Frodsham, Cheshire, G. E. Hunt. 10. Strensall Moor,
G. Stabler; Stockton Forest, G. Stabler; Yeadon, Br. Carrington.
1. Lachan Bay, Co. Mayo, B. Moore. Loch Bray, Co. Wicklow
B. McArdle.
Found on the Continent.
Obs.—Distinguished from Ceph. catenulata (Hüben.), which it
approaches most in habit, by its paler colour (pale green or
yellowish, and not a tawny brown), leaves not so deeply bifid
^ lls slightly larger and bracts entire. From Ceph. lunulafolia
Dum. by its smaller leaf-cells, and perianth composed of a
single layer of cells only.
D escription op Pla™ LV.—Fig. 1. Plants natural size.
2. Portion of stem x 24 (Stockton Forest, G. Stabler)
3-6. Leaves x 64 (ditto). 7. Portion of leaf x 290 (ditto).
8 9 Bracts x 31 (Loch Bray, D. McArdle). 10. Bracteole x 31
(ditto) 11-13. Sub-bracts x 31 (ditto). 14. Sub-bracteole x 31
(ditto) 15. Perianth x 16 (ditto). 16. Cross-section of
perianth x 31 (ditto). 17. Portion of the mouth of perianth x 85
(ditto). 18. Perigonial bract x 64 (Stockton Forest, G. Stabler)
19 Perigonial bracteole x 64 (ditto). 20. Antheridium x 85
(ditto).
3. Cephalozia lunulæfolia, Bum.
.Jungermania connivens, Mart. M. crypt. Erl. p. 169, t. 5, f. 44 (1817V Mou<r
et Nestl. St. crypt. Tog., 5, n. 482. ’
■Jungermania lunidcefolia, Dum. Syll. Ju n g ,, p. 61 (1831).
Cephalozia himdcefolia, Dum. Eecueil p. 18 (1835).
CepJialozia media, Lindb. Medd. af Soc. pro f. fl. Eenn. 6, p. 242 (1881)
Cephalozia multiflm-a, Spruce, On Ceph., p. 87 (1882).
Dioicous, densely depressed cæspitose, amongst Sphagna laxly
creeping, eflagelliferous, small, of a pale green colour. Stem
prostrate, subramose, sometimes subpinnate, suboompressed above
almost plane, below convex, cells 6 or 7 in diameter, cortical cells