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tangled tufts 2-4 mm. high, of a blue green colour,
brownish below, stems creeping, ascending, rigid,
crowded, with short radicles beneath; branches
short and clavate. Leaves compressed, trifarious,
deeply bifid, some more expanded, shorter and
broader. Cells quadrate, rectangular, rarely 5-6
angled, thin walled. Cuticle distinctly granular.
Male involucral leaves two to four pairs, compressed,
a little concave, very broad, mostly incised
one-third of their length. Antheridia beneath
the archegonia at the end of the stem or innovations,
round, simple on very short peduncles. Female
involucral leaves longer, deeply incised, and distinctly
dentate. Perianth scarcely higher than the
involucre, egg-shaped, deeply plicate, the mouth a
little contracted and finely dentate. Archegonia,
three to five.— {Plate 2,flg. 28.)
Anthelia setifopmis, Ehr.
Stem erect, near ly simple, leaves bifarious,
closely incumbent, palmate, base two-spurred,
segments spinulosely toothed ; st ipules minute,
v e r y rarely bifid ; perianth cylindrical,
axil lary or terminal.
Jungerniannia setiformts, Ehr, Beitr. I l L ,
p. 80; Hook. Br. Jung. No. 20; Mart. Erl.
p. 45, t. 4, f. 18 ; Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No. 96,
252 ; Co o ke Hep. f. 89. A nthelia setiformis,
Dumort. Rev. Jung. p. 18 ; Carr, and Pears.
Exs. No. 120, 121.
In mountain districts.
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Growing in dense matted tufts some inches
broad. Stems 2 to 3 inches long, slender, of a reddish
brown colour, erect, simple, or
irregularly dichotomous. Leaves bifarious,
erect ; adpressed, so closely imbricate
as to conceal the stem, quadrate
but broader than long, somewhat embracing,
divided from the apex to one-
fifth of the base into four equal
lanceolate, erect segments, which are
keeled on their inner surface, and furrowed
on the outer ; margins recurved,
here and there beset with unequal strong
teeth, generally pointed downwards. The 56.
texture rigid and brittle when dry. Colour pale
yellowish brown. Perichaetial leaves larger than
the rest, the divisions more numerous, margins
more recurved, and teeth larger, and more abundant.
Calyx oblong, plicate, mouth toothed, but
not contracted (fig. 56).
Anthelia fllum, Dumort.
Stem erect, near ly simple ; leaves hilarious,
closely incumbent, palmate, two-spur red at
the base, segments entire, st ipules none.
Jungermannia setijormis ß alpina, LI00k. Br.
Jung. t. 20, f. I, 3, 4. Jtmgermanuia Jilum,
Dumort. Syll . Jung. p. 64. Anthelia Jiluni,
Dumort. Rev. Jung. p. 18 ; Plep. Eur. p. 98.
Amongst moss.
This differs from Anthelia setijormis in the
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