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Mylia Taylori, Hook.
Stem erect, near ly simple, leaves bifarious,
accumbent, rounded, concave, ent ire; perichætial
leaves oblong, connate at the base ;
stipules awl-shaped ; perianth ovate, truncate,
rather two-lipped.
Jungermannia Taylori, Hook. Br. Jung.
No. 57 ; Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No. 14 ; Cooke
Hep. f. 56, 57. Mylia Taylori, Carr, and
Pears. Exs. 91, 224; Carr. Br. Hep., p. 68,
t. 9, f. 30. Coleochila Taylori, Dumort. Hep.
Eur. p. 106. Leptoscyphus Taylori, Mitten.
Hook. Journ. IIP, 358.
Moist rocks and boggy places. (Fr. Spring.)
Shoots densely cæspitose, erect, innovant, leaves
orbicular, coriaceous, horizontally spreading and
reflexed from a saccate base ;
perianth ovate, as long again as
the roundish involucral bracts.
Growingin rather largepatches.
Stems erect, 2 to 4 or 5 inches
long, th re ad - l ik e , f lexuous ,
simple, or sometimes innovant
near the extremity. Leaves
largest at the ext.'-emity of fertile
threads , e v e r yw h e r e c lo s e
and bifarious, slightly imbricating,
alternate, horizontally
spreading, not unfrequently
140 141.
erect and secund, round or suborbicular, plane "or
slightly concave ; margins entire, sometimes a little
waved, slightly recurved at the extremity, base
decurrcnt, and obliquely half embracing (fig. 141).
Substance thick. Colour yellowish-green at the
base,assuming a purplish tint towards the extremity.
Stipules minute, widely subulate (fig. 140). Perichsetial
leaves one crcct pair at the base of the
calyx, margins a little waved. Calyx ovate, not
plicate, cylindrical, but compressed at the apex,
and truncate, obsoletely toothed, and two-lipped.
Capsule dark brown, furrowed. Elaters short,
bispiral.
Mylia anomala, Hook.
S hoots scattered, creeping, most ly simple ;
leaves rather distant, subsecund, diversiform,
roundish-ovate, obtuse to ovate, acuminate,
concave ; texture thinner than in M. Taylori.
Perianth ovate-oblong, thrice the length of the
involucral bracts, which are ovate.
Jungermannia anomala. Hook. Br. Jung.
No. 3 4 ; Eng. Bot. t. 2518. Jungermannia
Taylori v. anomala, Nees Eur. Leb. IE, 4 55 -
Gott. and Rabh. Exs. 113, 236, 414, 415.
Coleochila anomala, Dumort. Hep. Eur. 106.
Mylia anomala, Carr, and Pears. Exs. No. 225.
Mylia Taylori anomala, Carr. Br. Hep. p. 70,
t. 9, f. 29.
In scattered tufts among Sphagnum.
Sir W. Hooker states that the principal difference
between these two species consists in the
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