roundish, entire or obtusely notched. _ Calyx
obcordate, depressed, beside the
two angles from the sides a third
projects from the under surface
(fig. 34), mouth at first a central
tubular apiculus, at length divided
into four acute teeth. Capsule
spherical, delicate, whitish, cleft to
the thickened apex of the peduncle.
Elaters bispiral, persistent.— (Plate
I, fig- I3 -)
34*
Lejeunia calyptrifolia, Hook., Dum.
Leav e s bladder- like, calyptriform, ovate,
cuspidate ; basilar auricle circumvolute ; peri-
chmtial quadrate, obtusely emarginate ; per ianth
f ive-keeled, depres sed at the apex.
Lejeunia calyptrifolia, Hook. Br. Jung. t.
4 3 ; Eng. Bot. t. 2, 538 ; Co o ke Hep. fig.
1 5 6 ; Carr, and Fears . Exs. 197. Colnro-
Lejeunia calyptrifolia, Spruce Hep. Ama z .
P- 304-
On furze and rocks.
Grows in little pale green tufts, scarcely \ inch
broad. Stems procumbent, one to two lines long,
creeping, thread-like, once or twice divided, with
spreading branches, of a pale green. Leaves rather
close, bifarious, horizontal, spreading or erect,
largest at the b a s e , gradually lessening to the apex,
unequally two-lobed, having the superior the
largest, of the same shape as the calyptra in mosses,
oviform, its base narrowed, furnished with a narrow
opening about half
the length of the leaf,
tiie apex lengthened
out. Incurved and
acute; lesser lobe
subquadrate, with
obtuse angles, adpressed
35*
to the larger
one, half embracing
it, and concealing the rA . ^
opening . C o lo u r
pale yqllow green.
Perichaetial leaves
from two to four,
erect, adpressed to
the calyx and about one-fourth the length, nearly
quadrate, sides incurved, apex obtusely and widely
emarginate. Stipules small, oblong, plane, ad-
pressed_ or a little spreading, cleft one-third by an
acute sinus into two nearly equal acute segments.
Calyx oblong, attenuated at the base, widening upwards,
with five projecting angles, or teeth, apex
depressed, mouth contracted and jagged. Capsule
membranous, white, four cleft half way down. Elaters
bispiral (fig. 35).
Tribe I I . JU N G E R M A N N IE Æ .
Female flowers with few or many pistillidia
(5 to 80). Capsule globose, oblong, or