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Amongst rocks, in dense crowded tufts.
Tufts several inches broad. Stems reddish brown,
J ^ 2 or 3 to 5 inches long, flexuous,
simple, or rarely slightly branched,
Leaves in four rows, thickly imbricated,
or more scattered, falcate,
lanceolate, divided nearly
three parts down by an acute
sinus into two equal, entire, acuminate
segments (fig. 53)> pale
yellow brown, rigid. Involucral
53- leaves numerous, crowded, united
at their base, acuminate segments alone free, caly x
ovate, plicate. Calyptra ovate, white. Capsule dark
brown, quadri valvate. Elaters bispiral.
var. straminea Dum. L e a v e s ovate, or
ovate- lanceolate, segments erect, lanceolate,
colour darker brown, or almost black.— Schisma
straminea, Dumort. Hep. Eur.
On Scotch mountains.
Gen u s 8. TRICHOLEA, Dumort.
Involucre none; perianth erect, stipitate,
free, tubulose, terete, covered e v e r ywh e r e
with hairs ; apex truncate, undivided, wi thout
teeth, mouth open, c ir cula r ; capsule four-
valved, coriaceous, naked ; elaters double,
naked, deciduous. Dum. Syll., t. i , f . 8. (1831 ) .
Hep. E ur ., t. 3, /. 29.
Plants stipulate, leaves incurrent, multifid, cut
into hair-like segments.
Tricholea tomentella, E hr.
Stems dichotomous, thrice pinnate, leaves
hair-like, multifid ; st ipules transversal, subquadrate,
four-partite, setaceous, multifid.
Jungermannia tomentella, Ehr. Beitr. II., 150.
Dicks. Cryp t . II., 14 ; Eng. Bot. t. 2242.
Hook. Br. Jung. t. 36. Trichocolea tomentella,
Nees. Eur. III., 1057 ; Gott. and Rab. Exs.
52, 272 ; Co o k e Hep. f. 129. Tricholea tomentella,
Dumort. Comm. p. 1 1 3 ; Carr, and
Pears. Exs. No. 10, 11.
On moist rocks. (Fr. March and June.)
P'orming dense tufts, sometimes several feet in
diameter, of a very pale glaucous green colour, and
tomentose habit. Stems 2 to 6
inches long and flexuous, primary
branches stout and forked,
secondary alternately pinnate,
spreading, often with shorter
pinnules. Leaves spreading,
much divided and subdivided
into numerous hair-like segments,
so as to give the plant a
woolly appearance (fig. 54).
Stipules subquadratc, and
ciliate, between each pair
of leaves {b). Inflorescence
dioicous. Involucre clothed
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with tomentose bracts. Pistillidia very numerous.
Capsule deep purple brown, striate. Spores dark-
brown. Pdaters bispiral. Male shoots more
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