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Ptilidium Woodsii, Dum.
Stem procumbent, two to three pinnate,
leaves bifarious, two-lobed, spinulosely dentate,
minute linear auricle at the base; st ipules
ovate, bipartite, dentate, base spurred on both
sides.
JuHgCTfHcifi'iiid IVoodsiiy Hook. B i . Jung.
No. 66 ; Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2668 ; Mackay
FI. Hib. II., 66. Sendtnera Woodsii, Got t .
and Rab. Exs. 367, 4 90; Co o ke Hep. f. 131.
Mastigophora Woodsii, Ne e s Eur. Leb. 3, 93.
Carr, and Pears. Exs. No. 128, 271. Blepharozia
Woodsii, Dum. Re v . Jung. p. 16.
On Irish mountains.
Growing in large densely crowded patches, stems
procumbent, 3 to 5 or 6 inches long, flexuous,
thread-like, once or
twice dichotomous,
beset throughout with
rather distant spreading
pinnae, which are
e i th e r s im p le or
again pinnate, dirty
brown. L e a v e s
closely placed, in the
e x t r e m e r amul i ,
52. largest at the apex,
in the rest gradually smaller everywhere imbricate,
and bifarious; round or subquadrate, of two unequal
lobes, the upper the largest, convex divided
for half its length by an acute smus into two ovate
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segments, beset at the margin with variously sized,
rather large, spinulose te e th; inferior lobe very
minute and oblong, margin nearly entire. Colour
purplish-brown, stipules very large, broader than
the stem, widely ovate, cleft into two spiny-toothed
segments, with a reflexed spur at the base (fig.
52).
G e n u s 7. HERBERTA, Gray.
Involucre many- leaved, leaves connate at
the base, deeply two- lobed ; perianth none,
calyptra included ; capsule four-valved, coriaceous,
naked ; elaters double, naked, deciduous.
Gray A r r . I., 705. Schisma, Dumort.
Hep. E ur ., t. 4, f. 38. S e e Spruce, Hep. Amaz.
p. 340.
Herbepta adunca, Dicks.
Stem erect, flexuous ; leaves quadrifarious,
falcate, secund, elongated, bipartite ; laciniae
awl-shaped, long, acuminate, straight, entire
at the base.
Jungermannia adunca, Dicks. Crypt . III., p.
12, t. 8. Jungermannia juniperina v. adunca.
Hook. Br. Jung. t. 4. Schisma aduncam,
Dumort. Comm. p. 116. Sendtnera adunca,
Gott. and Rab. Exs. 2 10; Carr. Trans . Bot.
Soc. Edin. V IL , 454; C o o k e Hep. f. 130.
Herberta adunca, Carr, and Pears. Exs. No.
42.
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