Harpanthus Flotovianus, Nees.
Stem ascending, leaves approximate, or bicular
ovate, obtuse ly emarginate ; st ipules
ovate-lanceolate, bifid or entire, equally acuminate
; perianth cylindrical, subsessile.
Jungermannia Flotoviana, Nees FI. Ratis.
1833» P- 408. Harpanthus Flotovianus, Nees
Eur. Leb. II., 3 5 3 ; Gott. and Rab. Exs. 379,
4 1 7 ; Carr, and Pears. Exs. No. 265. P leu r -
anthc olivácea, Ta y l . Lond. Journ. V., 282
( 184 6 ) ; Lindb. Hep. Hibern. 516.
Amongst Sphagnum, on wet rocks. (Fr. Spr.
and Sum.)
Stems 5 to 2 inches, flexuous, procumbent,
creeping amongst mosses, mostly unbranchcd,
sometimes several stems from an old growth, of a
delicate green or tinged with brown ; rootlets
white, short. Feaves ovate, orbiculate, horizontal,
insertion of upper part in line with the stem, base
deem rent, curved forward. A p e x contracted,
emarginate, sinus small and shallow, segments’
rounded, upper tooth sometimes larger and acute,
then overhanging like a claw. Young shoots light
green or light olive, older plants often with a
reddish tinge. Stipules large, very distinct, ovate,
ovate-lanceolate, or lanceolate, acute, inserted
obliquely, some entire, others with a tooth on the
outer side about the middle, rarely toothed on both
sides. Leaf cells hexagonal. Dioicous. Male
plants smaller, antheridia single at the base of each
swollen leaf, rerianth from the axil of a stipule,
subcylindrical, slightly sickle-shaped, pale grccni.sh!
mouth pointed, at first notched on one side, and
finely crenulate. Calyptra campanulate. Capsule
oval, brown, four-valved. Flaters bispiral.— (/VrtA
5, Jig. 62.)
Harpanthus scutatus, W. and M., spruce.
Stem ascending, simple ; leaves erect,
rounded, concave, acutely emarginate, perichætial
3-4-fid ; st ipules triangular, acuminate,
one tooth on each s id e ; perianth lateral,
ovate.
Jmigermannia scutata, Web. and Mohr. D.
Crypt . 408; Hook. Br. FI. V., p. 1 1 8 ; Mack.
Hib. I I . , 6 4 ; Gott. and Rab. Exs. 218, 354,
466 ; Cooke Hep. f. 72. Jungermannia stipu-
lacea. Hook. Br. Jung. t. 41 ; Eng. Bot. t.
2538- Harpanthus scutatus. Sp ruc e Trans .
Bot. Edin. III., 209; Carr. Br. Hep., p. 49, t
17, f. 52.
On rocks or trunks.
Carr,var. imbricatus. and Pe ar s . Exs.
No. 264.
Growing in dense compact tufts, pale olive,
olive-brown or brown. Stems decumbent, rootlets
numerous. Leaves bifarious, imbricate, erect,
roundish-ovate, sharply bidentate, with an acute