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more unequal and acuminate, stipules more frequent
chieflv on maie plants. Inflorescence dioicous,
femaÎe always terminal on elongated branches ;
lateral bracts more deeply cut, laciniæ entire.
Perianth larger.— {Plate 6, fig. 2p)
Spruce says that this can hardly be considered
more than the dioicous and perfect form of Cephalozia
bicuspidata. Whether species, subspecies, or
varicty, it is easy to distinguish from bicuspidata by
its mudi larger size, tufted growth, absence of
flagellæ, dioicous, inflorescence, and the female
flowers terminating long branches.
Cephalozia connivens, Dicks.
Stem creeping, branched, leaves accumbent,
suborbicular, lunular-emarginate, bifid, laciniæ
incurved, connivent, per ichæt ial leaves e v e r y whe
re imbricate, st ipules none ;
perianth terminal on lateral branches, ovate,
mouth ciliate.
Jungermannia connivens, Dicks. Crypt . IV.,
p. 19, t. I I , f. 1 5 ; Hook. Br. Jung. No. 15 ;
Eng. Bot. t. 2436; Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No.
I l l , 175, 239, 380, 4 7 3 : Co o ke Hep. fig.
97. Blepharostoma connivens, Dumort. Kev.
Jung. p. 18. Cephalozia connivens, Lindb.
Spruce Ceph. p. 46 ; Carr, and Pears. Exs.
No. 117.
In boggy places. (Fr. April, May.)
101
Growing in small loose patches, pale yellowish
green. Stems thread-like, flexuous,
procumbent, | to i inch or
more, semi -pel lucid, del icate,
branched in a somewhat stellate
manner, branches again subdivided.
Leaves bifarious, erect
or spreading, more or less distant,
minute, orbicular, decurrent at
the base, concave above, convex
below, cleft at the apex by an
orbicular notch, hence the segments
are connivent (fig. 73).
Perichætial leaves five to ten, l i the
exterior bifid or trifid, with linear lanceolate
straight segments, the intermediate more oblong
and trifid, the interior oblong, divided into four or
five linear erect segments, so as to be almost
palmate. Calyx oblong-ovate, attenuated at the
base, semi-transparent, mouth contracted, ciliate.
Calyptra ovate, whitish. Capsule ovate, deep brown.
Elaters bispiral.
Cephalozia cupvifolia, Dicks.
Stem creeping, branched, leaves semi -v er tical,
erect, rather rounded, concave, lunate,
segments incurved and cornute ; perichæt ial
leaves e v e r ywh e r e imbricate ; st ipules none ;
perianth terminal on lateral branches, oblong.
Jungermannia curvifiolia, Dicks. Crypt . II.,
p. 13, t. 5, f. 7 ; Hook. Br. Jung. t. 15, suppl.
t. I ; Mack. Hib. I I . , 60 ; Gott. and Rabh.