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T a y lo r Gott. Syn. p. 3 7 6 ; Spruce Hep. Pyr.
I'rans. Bot. Soc. Edin. III., 2 1 2 ; Carr, and
Pears. Exs. No. 5 2 ; Cooke Hep. fig. 154.
On damp rocks.
var. pumila, Carr, and Pears. Exs. No. 279.
Stems creeping, branched. Leaves vertical, imbricate,
ovate, alternate, auriculate
beneath, larger lobe plane ovate,
(acute in Dickson’s figure) lobule
saccate and inflexed, often radicu-
lose. Fruit terminal or lateral.
Calyx obovate, acutely five-angled
at the apex, mouth lacerated {plate
3°- I , fig- The figure 30 is a facsimile
of Dickson’s figure.
Lejeunia serpyiiifoiia, Bkks., Lib.
Stems v a gue ly branched, lax, leaves incurrent,
accLimbent, auriculate, larg er limb
plane, ro u n d ed -o b lon g ; st ipules rounded,
bifid, involucral deeply and unequally two-
lobed, e n t i r e ; perianth broadly ovate, pentagonal,
mouth mucronate.
Jungermannia serpyllijolia, Dicks. Cryp t . 4,
p. 1 9 ; Hook. Br. ju n g . t. 42 ; Eng. Bot. t.
2537. Lejeunia serpyiiifoiia. Lib. Ann. VI .,
374, t. 96, f. 2. ; Gott. and Kab. Exs. 47, 273,
4 3 5 ; Carr, and Pears. Exs. No. 135, 19 5 ;
Cooke Hep. fig. 152, 153.
var. a planiuscula, Lindb.
var. y heterophylla, Carr. Irish Cryp t . Branches
attenuate, microphyllous ; lobule obsolete
; leaves plane, va r ious ly shaped, distant.
On wet shady rocks.
var. ^ cavijolia, Lindb.
On trunks and amongst moss. (Fr. Ap. May.)
Growing in rather large patches, stems | to f inch,
thread-like, flexuous, irregularly pinnate,
b ran ch e s m o s t ly s imple.
Leaves rather closely imbricated,
bifarious (fig. 31) somewhat two-
lobed, upper lobe by far the largest,
horizontal, ovate, slightly convex, the
base beneath ventricose, where the
upper lobe rises, which perhaps is
only a dilated and involute portion
of the margin. Colour pale yellow
green, Perichaetial leaves of different
figure, from the rest, much larger,
deeply divided into two oblong-
ovate, obtuse, and slightly convex 31-
lobes, which closely embrace the calyx, the upper
three times the size of the lower. Stipules roundish.