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Male catkins on postical branches. Antheridia
solitary.— {Plate 4, fig. 61.)
Cephalozia - heterostipa, Spruce.
Stems stout, radicellose, bifurcate, branches
postical and most ly flagelliform, leaves distant
below, c rowded above, oblong, acutely
bilobate, st ipules small. Involuc ral bracts
loosely imbricate, 3-4 lobed, mixed with
smaller bracteoles. Perianth ob s cu re ly and
obtu se ly tr igonous above, mouth rather wide,
six-lobed, lobes dentate.
Cephalozia heterostipa, Spruce Cepha loz ia p.
55. Jungermannia inflata, Carr, in Cot t . and
Rabh. Exs. No. 172. Sarcoscyphus sphacelatus,
Hepp. in C o t t . and Rab. Exs. 137.
On wet rocks in mountains.
Dioicous, depressedly cæspitose, green turning
reddish or bay, or sometimes orange, fragile.
Stems f to I inch, intricate, stout, flexuous, radicellose
throughout their length, simple, or dichotomous.
Leaves diagonally inserted, lower distant,
spreading, oblong, or cuneate-oblong, rather acutely
bilobed for one-third, lobes obtuse or rounded,
upper leaves approximate and more or less imbricate,
chiefly about the female flowers and forks
of the stem deeper coloured, broader, cuneate,
bilobed one-half, or sometimes 3 - 4 lobed,
obtusely toothed ; cells 4 - 6 angled. Stipules
small or minute, now and then obsolete, coloured,
linear or subulate, entire, rarely bifid, segments
erect and narrow, sometimes with the normal
form are others as long as the leaves and
falcate or ligulate. Female flowers terminal on
the stem, pistillidia ten to sixteen, bracts loosely
imbricate, concave, broader than long, 3-4 lobed,
bracteoles smaller, obliquely ovate lanceolate,
ent’ire or bilobate. Perianth emersed, green, pear-
shaped, rather compressed, obscurely trigonous,
mouth shortly six-lobed, the lobes dentate, teeth of
equal size.— {Plate j , fig. 6yl)
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Sub-Genus. ODONTOCHISMA, J
Cephalozia sphagni, Dicks.
Stem serpent ine ; leaves erect, orbiculate,
entire ; perichaetial leaves oblong, two-lobed,
st ipules lanceolate, none on sterile stems, on
fertile or gemmæ bearing stems ovate.
Jungermannia sphagni, Dicks. Crypt . I.,
p. 6, t. I , f. 10 ; Eng. Bot. t. 2 4 70; Hook. Br.
Jung. No. 33. Sphagnoccetis communis, Nees
Syn. Hep. p, 148 ; Co o ke Hep. f. 104, 105.
Odontochisma sphagni, Dumort . Rev. Jung.
19 ; Carr, and Pears. Exs. No. 181. Cephalozia
sphagni. Sp ru c e Hep. Ama z . p. 400.
Marshy places amongst Sphagnum.
Growing in loose patches, or straggling. Steins
2 to 4 inches, procumbent, filiform, flexuous, simple,
or with short innovations, radicles numerous,
combined with thicker and larger opaque rootlets