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outer surftioe a verruculose appearance, mouth sub-oonstrioted
longieiliate, afterwards trilobed ; cilia of the so-called lobe about
4, of about 5 cells long, usually of one series of cells, a few
cilioles or teeth interspersed. Calyptra short, delicate. Pistillidia
few, about 6, long, narrow. Capsule oblong-globose.
Andrcecia conspicuous,- occupying the whole branch or often only
on the apex or base of it, perigonial bracts 8-10 pairs, a little
smaller than the leaves, concave, to the middle bifid, often with a
tooth or lobule added on the antieal side; perigonial bracteoles
more or less absent ; antheridia oval, single.
D imensions.—Stems about an inch long, -2 mm. in diameter,
with leaves 1' mm. wide; leaves -5 mm. x ’5 mm., -4 mm.x
•-35 mm., segments '2 mm., '45 mm. x '45 mm., seg. ’2 mm. .
cells '075 mm., '07 mm. x '05 mm., '04 mm. x '04 mm., '07 mm. x
•04 mm., -05 mm. x -05 mm.; sub-bracts -75 mm. x -7 mm., seg.
•35 mm., -65 mm. x -55 mm., seg. -3 mm., -5 mm. x -4 mm.,
seg. -3 mm.; sub-braoteole -35 mm. x -2 mm., seg. -15 mm.;
bracts -8 mm., 1- mm. x 1- mm., seg. -75 mm., 1-1 mm. x 1- mrn.,
seg. -6 mm. ; bracteole -6 mm. x -5 mrn., seg. -4 mm. ; perianth
2-5 mm.— A mm. x 1-mm., 3. mm. x -75 mm.; cilia -4 mm., -5 mm.;
pistillidia -25 mm. x -04 mm. ; capsule -5 mm x -5 mm. ; valve of
capsule 1- mm. X -3 mm.; spores -015 mm.; elaters -2 mm.x
•015 mm. ; perigonial bracts A mm. x -35 mm., seg. -2 mm.,
•45 mm. x -45 mm., seg. -2 mm. ; antheridia -125 mm. x -1 mm.
H ab.— Growing in loose tufts, thin patches, or creeping among
Sphagna on wet moors or peat mosses. Somewhat rare.
1 ? 2. New Forest, Hampshire, C. Lyell. 4. Marshy place
in wood near Holt, Norfolk, Hooker. 5 ? 7 ? 9. Chat Moss,
Lane., W. H. P. 10. Terrington Carr, Hr. Spruce ; Goa.i\ûmà
& Wheeldale, nr. Whitby, M. B. Slater. 12. 13. Glenlee
Glen, New Galloway, J . McAndrew; Barend Moss, above Routen
Bridge and Crichope Linn, Kirkcudbrightshire, J. Cruickshank.
14. Kelso, A. Brotherston. 15. Strachan, Aberdeen, J. Sim. 16.
Moidart, W est Inverness, S. M. Macvicar. I.
Found on the Continent and in North America, also a
variety with flagella in South Africa.
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O bs .—Distinguished from C. bicuspidata (L.) by the longitudinal
or lateral insertion of the leaves, giving it a flat ribbonlike
appearance, the very deourrent antical base, connivent
segments, the larger cells, absence of flagella, and perianth with
long cilia at the month.
C. lunulæfolia Dum. is a smaller plant with dioicous inflorescence.
D escription oe P late LX.—Pig. 1. Plant natural size. 2.
Portion of stem x 24. 3, 4. Leaves x 64. 5. Portion of leaf
X 290. 6, 7. Bracts x 24. 8. Bracteole x 24. 9-11. Subbracts
x 24. 12. Sub-bracteole x 24. 13. Perianth x 16.
14. Cross-section of perianth x 16. 15. Portion of mouth of
perianth x 85. 16, 17. Perigonial bracts x 64. 18. Antheridium
X 85 (Terrington Carr, Torks., Dr. Spruce).
Cephalozia curvifolia [Dicks.), Bum.
.Jungermania curvifolia, Dicks. PI. crypt. Brit. fasc. 11, 15, t. 5 (179 Hook.
Brit. Jung. t. 15 e t Suppl. t. 1. ex parte (1816).
Jungermania Baueri, Mart. PI. crypt. Ei'Iang. p. 172, t. 6, f. 16 (1817).
Cephalozia curvifolia, Dum. Recueil p. 18 (1835).
Nowellia cm'vifolia. Mitten in Godman’s “ N a tu ra l History of th e Azores ”
(1870).
Monoicous and dioicous, densely depresso-cæspitose, eflagelliferous,
small, pale green, whitish-red or deep purple colour. Stems
slender, pellucid, suhterete ; radiculose, rootlets somewhat thick,
numerous ; simple or slightly branched, branohes few, ascending,
postical ; very rarely furcate ; cortical cells 8, large, outer walls
thick, inner 4 cells in diam., smaller. Leaves loosely imbricate,
assurgent-suhsecund, succubous, almost transversely inserted,
oblique obovate, concave, antical margin almost straight, postical
broadly semi-cordate at the base, with inflexed auricle, with
margin appressed to the leaf, ventricose at the keel, bilobed to
below the middle, sinus more or less broadly lunulate ; segments
inourved-hamate, capillaris-cuspidate, points consisting of 8-10
oblong-quadrate uniseriate cells ; cells smallish to medium in size,