irril
apex flagellate, small-leaved. A ll the branches
lateral axillary. Leaves small, cauline distant,
rarely rather contiguous, obliquely incubous, subquadrate,
palmatifid to the middle, laciniæ for the
most part four, rarely five or six subulate, rather
acuminate, incurved uncinate, three to five cells
broad at the base. Leaves of the branches smaller,
3-4-fid, the upper bifid, leaves of the branchlets
longer and narrower, deeply bifid. Stipules shorter
than the leaves, cut half way into four or five, rarely
six, teeth, broadly subulate, obtuse and incurved.
Flowers dioicous, male spicate at the apex of a
branch, bracts three to ten, smaller than the leaves,
imbricate, bilobate, concave, rarely with a basal
tooth, .lobes ovate, acute, incurved, bracteoles
narrower, bilobed. Antheridia solitary, shortly
stipitate.— {Plate 2, fig. J i )
Lepidozia setacea, Wei>.
Stem creeping, branched, leaves e v e r y whe
re imbricate, bipartite near ly to the base,
setaceous, incurved, articulate, perichæt ial
leaves dissected, st ipules none. Perianth
lateral, oblong, mouth open, ciliate.
Jungermannia setacea, Web . Spic. Gott. 145 ;
Hook. Br. Jung. No. 8 ; Engl. Bot. t. 2482 ;
Gott. and Rabh. Exs . 38, 39, 114, 4 4 5 > 5o2.
Lepidozia setacea, C o o k e Hep. f. 120; Carr,
and Pears. Exs. No. 191, 192. Blepharostonia
setacea, Dumort. Rev. ju n g . p. 18 ; Dumort.
Hep. Eur. 95. Jungermannia pavicijlora.
Dicks. Crypt . I I . , 15, t. 5, f. 9. Jungermannia
multijlora, Huds. FI. A u g . , p.
In bogs, &c. (Fr. Autumn.)
var. sertularioides, Nees. Elongated, remotely
and s imply pinnate, pallid, leaves
distant.
Amongst sphagnum.
var. y Schultzii. Cæspi tose, leaves crowded,
imbricate. Lepidozia setacea v. Schultzii,
Carr, and Pears. Exs. No. 193.
Sometimes in dense tufts, but frequently scattered.
Stems creeping, from J to 2 inches or
more, irregularly forked, with irregular
pinnate branches, which are short
and spreading. Leaves generally in
pairs, sometimes three together, on
every side of the branch (fig, 68),
minute, setaceous, spreading, incurved,
transversely septate ; generally
of a pale yellowish green, sometimes
brownish. Perigonial leaves
thickly clustered in a sphærical
manner, the exterior simple, the
interior rising from a broad base,
divided above into a number of
narrow laciniæ. Perichætial leaves
closely adpressed, oblong-ovate,
divided nearly to the base into narrow lacmiæ.
Perianth small, cylindrical, pellucid, mouth ciliate ;
capsule ovate, furrowed. Elaters bispiral.
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