Not roved, a t liis own gentle pace, and th e re
Ta’en note of plant-life in its tinie st forms ?
W h a t hill or knoll hath he not clomb, early
Or late, or a t mid-day, in ra in or shine ?
Shine sweetly. Sun, upon th is honoured grave !
Tread softly ye upon his kindly mould !
And raise a Tablet th a t th e child may ask :
‘ For whom ? ’ and learn th a t Truth and Gentleness have
lived ! ”
I have remarked upon the colour of the species. Whilst
collecting, along with my friend Dr. Carrington, in the woods of
Borrowdale, we noticed at some considerable distance a mass of
rich reddish-purple which we could not make out. Judge oui-
surprise, when we approached near, to find the hnge trunk of a
rotting tree covered with this species! (We speedily made ourselves
“ Rich in th e wealth, which is collected
Among woods and fields.”
D escription op P late L X I—Pig. I. Plants natural size.
2. Portion of stem x (Dr. Gottsche, in G. & B. Hep. Eur.
11. 232). 3, 4. Leaves x (ditto). 5-8. Leaves x 24 (Naddle
Forest, Westmorland, G. Stabler). 9. Portion of leaf x 290
(ditto). 10. Bracts x 24 (Patterdale, Cumberland, W. H. P.).
11. Bracteole x 24 (ditto). 12. Sub-bract x 24 (ditto). 13. Sub-
braoteole X 24 (ditto). 14. Sub-bract x 24 (ditto). 15. Perianth
x 24 (ditto). 16. Cross-section of the same x 24 (ditto).
17. Ditto X ? (Dr. G. in G. & R. Hep. Eur. n. 232). 18. Portion
of the mouth of the perianth x 85 (Patterdale, W. H. P.).
19, 20. Perigonial bract x 31 (ditto). 21. Leaf at the base of
stem X 31 (ditto). 22. Perigonial bracteole x 85 (ditto).
23. Antheridium x 85 (ditto).
9. Cephalozia Francisoi [Hook.), Dum.
■Tungermania Franoisci, Hook. B rit. Ju n g . t. 49 (1816).
Cephalozia Franoisci, Dum. Eecueil, p. 18 (1835).
Dioicous, densely cæspitose, flagelliferous, small, green to
reddish-green at the ends of the stems. Stems filiform, yet proportionately
thick, fleshy, procumbent, subramose, branches
ascending, with few leaves near the base ; radiculose, rootlets
plentiful at the base, hyaline; cortical cells about 15, inner
slightly larger, all opaque ; flagella numerous, leafless or with
minute leafy processes. Leaves patent-divergent or patent
spreading or subseound, distant or subimbricate, small, oval-
orbiculate or broadly ovate, from Jth to Jrd bidentate, sinus
acute or obtusate, segments acute or obtuse, lower one usually
connivent ; cells smallish, snbquadrate, near the middle oblong,
marginal cells small, quadrate ; walls thick, no trigones or thickened
angles. Stipules large, ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, entire, rarely
oblong-quadrate, bidentulate. Inflorescence cladocarpous, Î
bracts 3 pairs, innermost much larger than the leaves, ovate-
oblong, bifid to about -J-rd, segments lanceolate obtuse or acute,
recurved, unidentate on the outside ; bracteole free, ovate-oblong,
bifid ; sub-braots oval, shortly bidentate, sinus obtuse, segments
acute connivent ; sub-braoteole broadly lanceolate bifid. Perianth
twice as long as the bracts, projecting about half beyond them,
narrowly ovate-fusiform, trioarinate almost to the base, mouth
6-plicate, entire, at the base 3 cells thick, at the middle 2 cells.
Cafyptra lower half 2 cells thick. Pistillidia 5-8. Capsule large,
dark brown, almost black, oval-cylindrical, spores and elaters deep
red colour.
Andrcecia on the middle or the ends of the stem or postical
branches ; perigonial bracts 3-7 pairs, closely imbrioate, concave-
canaliculate, ovate-orbicular, bifid, sinus and segments subacute ;
perigonial bracteole linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Antheridia
single, large, oval.
Sometimes gemmiparous, gemmæ large, greenish to reddish-
green, at the ends of the stems.