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quadrate or obloug-quadrate, guttulate, verruculose, walls thick,
angles thickened. Axillary leaf (when stem furcate) acuminate
entire, the other segment abortive. On some elongated stems
and branches the leaves are more symmetrical, the inflexed auricle
disappearing. Stipules none. Branohes ? generally very short,
postical. Bracts 3 pairs, tristichous, innermost erect, oblong,
complioate-hilobed, segments subovate apiculate, partly free, all
the margin, except towards the base, minutely, unequally spinu-
lose-denticulate; bracteole similar; exterior bracts much smaller;
all the bracts and bracteoles without auricles. Perianth large,
often about the middle of a rosy-purple colour, apex white, linear,
deeply triquetrous-prismatic, mouth broadly truncate, wide, rarely
constricted, setulose, teeth 1-4 minute quadrate cells long ; delicate
texture, composed of one layer of cells, near the middle about
200 very small, roundish cells around. Pistillidia about 10,
large. Calyptra very delicate. Capsule oblong-globose.
Androeoia terminal or on short postical branches; perigonial
bracts many, closely imbrioate, somewhat similar to the leaves but
broader ; perigonial bracteoles subulate ; antheridia single, oval.
D imensions.—Stems to f inch long, diam. T5 mm. ; leaves
•65 mm. x A mm. ; lobule '3 mm., seg. -35 mm., -6 mm. x '5 mm.
lobule, -3 mm., seg. '3 mm., '75 mm. x -5 mm. ; lobule, ‘2 mm., seg.
•4 mm.; cells -045 mm. x -025 mm., -035 mm. x -025 mm.,
•035 mm. x 03 mm., -03 mm. x -025 mm., '025 mm. x -025 mm. ;
bracts 1-25 ram. x -9 mm., seg. -5 mm.; bracteole 1-1 mm.x
■7 mm., seg. A mm.; sub-braot 1' mm. x -6 mm., seg. A mm.
sub-braot, -65 mm. x A5 mm., seg. -25 mm. ; sub-braoteole -5 mm.
x-3 mm.; perianth 2- mm. x -6 mm.; teeth at the mouth
•075 mm., 125 mm. ; pistillidia "2 mm. x -04 mm. ; perigonial
bracts 6 mm. x '55 mm. ; lobule, -25 mm., seg. -4 mm. ; perigonial
bracteole -3 mm. x -05 mm. ; antheridia -1 mm. x -075 mm.
F a b .—Growing on rotting trunks of trees, soft sandstone
rocks ; and damp heathy moors in subalpine situations. Somewhat
rare.
2. Tunbridge Wells, Sussex, Hr. Spruce. 5, 7. Cwm Idwal,
Carnarvonshire. C. J. Wild and W. H. P. 9. Near Todmorden,
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John, Nowell. 10. Near Whitby, G. Stabler. 12. Naddle
Forest, Westmorland, G. Stabler. Borrowdale, Cumberland, Hr.
Carrington and W. IT. P. Patterdale. Westmorland, W. II. P.
13. Dunveook Glen and near Garroch, New Galloway, / . McAndrew.
15. Balmoral, G. Stabler. 16. Glen Finnan, Hr. Carrington.
Moidart, West Inverness, A. M. Macvicar. I. About Killarney
abundant.
Found on the Continent and in North America, also Mexico,
Azores, and, according to “ Syn. Hep..” in South Africa.
Obs. a most beautiful species, usually of a rosy or deep
purple colour ; distinguished from all other British Cephalozia: by
the remarkable inflexed auricle or lobule on the lower side of the
leaf
Sometimes the stem is furcate, with a difform (unicural) leaf
at the fork; this and the leaf auricle, I suppose, induced Mr.
Mitten to make a separate germs of it; but, as Dr. Spruoe points
out, this rare feature is also seen in other Cephalozia;, wid the
auricle disappears in some of the ordinary leaves, towards the apex
of drawn-out stems and branches, and always in the bracts, thus
rendering these characters not of sufficient value to separate it
from true Cephalozia. I regret this, as I should have been glad
to have followed Mr. Mitten in associating the name of Nowell
with this elegant species.
John Nowell was a working-man botanist, who had a most
intimate knowledge of the Hepaticæ, and who was one of the
most modest and generous of collectors. My readers will, I trust,
pardon me for inserting the following lines by his friend’,
Mr. Stansfield :—
“ Nature to him
Was ever, ever blooming ! Ah, to tell
The rapture th a t, even in winter’s depth,
To him could yield each tiny, glistening moss,
Or lichen grey, clothing th e barren rock !
W h a t nook of these onr vales
H a th he not peeped in—peeped, nay, closely scanned ?
A t what clear spring h a th he not bent and drank ?
Beside what stream, or through what dough, hath he