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G e n u s 1 3 . LEPIDOZIA, Dumort.
Involucre many- leaved ; leaves e v e rywh e re
imbricate, scale-like, undivided, apex toothed ;
perianth erect, sessile, terete, longer than the
calyptra, trisulcate, elongated, hyaline, s e g ments
dentate at the apex ; capsule four-
valved, coriaceous, naked ; elaters double,
naked, deciduous .— Dumort. Rev. Jung. 19
(1835). Hep. Eur. 109, t. 3 , / 28.
Plants stipulate, flagelliferous, leaves mcurrent,
divided.
Lepidozia reptans, Linn.
Stem creeping, branched, f lagelliferous ;
leaves subquadrate, incurved, apex acutely
four-toothed ; st ipules broadly quadrate, 2-4-
fid, perichaetial leaves ovate, unequally
four-toothed.
Jungermannia reptans, Linn. Sp. i 5 9 9 ’
Eng. Bot. t. 608 ; Hook. Br. Jung. No. 75.
Lepidozia reptans, Dum. Rev. Jung. p. I 9 -
Carr, and Pears. Exs. No. 268 ; Gott, and
Rab. Exs. 19, 282, 479 : Cooke Hep. f. T2T.
In woods, on banks, and shady places. (Fr. Spr.
and Sum.)
Covering the soil in dense tufts, or straggling
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amongst mosses. Stems creeping, horizontal ^ to
H inch long, thread-like, flexuous,
greenish or yellowish, irregularly
branched, growing in a stellate manner,
branches beset with spreading or horizontal
pinna;, extremities sometimes obtuse,
sometimes attenuated, under side of
the stem bearing flagellae. Leaves imbricated
on the upper surface, closely
so, for the most part, but on the
branches and innovations more distant
and smaller, all spreading or horizontal,
pointing a little to the end of the branch,
nearly quadrate, convex, incurved at the 4-
apex, divided into four (or three, and sometimes
five) acute teeth (fig. 64). Colour pale green, peri-
cha;tial leaves six or eight at the base of each calyx,
exterior the smallest, all ovate, convex, and cut into
three or four small teeth at the apex, nearly white.
Stipules twice the width of the stem, somewhat
quadrate, very convex, deeply cut into four acute
segments. Calyx sub-mcmbranaceous, nearly white,
oblong, somewhat plicate at the apex, mouth
dentate, capsule deep brown. Elaters bispiral.
Lepidozia tumidula, Tayl.
Stem procumbent, bipinnate, branches decurved,
flagelliform, leaves c losely imbricate,
vertical, obliquely rounded-quadrate, quadrifid,
segments acuminate, a s c en ding ; stipules
rounded-quadrate or subcordate, convex,
spreading, quadrifid, entire.
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