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close together and overlapping, erect or spreading,
rarely horizontal, orbicular, concave on the upper
side, colour yellow brown or
pale green (figs. 78, 79).
Stipules on the gemmiferous
shoots, oblong, or strap-shaped,
obtuse, entire, near the e x tremity
of the shoots emarginate.
Perichætial leaves, uppermost,
the largest, oblong ovate, cut
78- 79- into five or six toothed segments,
the receding ones smaller and less divided, at
length nearly entire, and rounded. Calyx oblong,
attenuated each way, semi-pellucid, slightly plicate,
mouth contracted and a little toothed. Gemmæ
abundant in October and November.
Cephalozia denudata, Nees.
Stem procumbent, branched, flagelliferous
branches a s c ending ; leaves subvert ical, connivent
above, orbiculate, entire, decurrent
about the apex ; st ipules numerous.
Jungermannia denudata Nees. in Mart. Erl.
p. xiv. Jungermannia scalaris ß denudata, Mart.
Erl. t. 6, f. 58 b. Odontochisma denudata,
Dumort. Rev. Jung. p. 1 9 ; Carr, and Pears.
Exs. No. 69, 182, 183. Jungermannia
sphagni. Hook. Br. Jung. Supp. t. 2. Cephalozia
sphagni. Sp ruc e Hep. Amaz. p. 402.
On trunks.
Similar to C. Sphagni, but smaller, reddish or
verging on purple or violet. Stem rather short,
prostrate, intricately branched, flagelliferous,
attached by villose radicles, branches ascending,
naked at the base, leaves increasing in size to
the middle, then diminishing to the apex. Leaves
almost of the same form as in C. Sphagni, broadly
ovate or rounded ovate, oblique, obscurely de-
current, subconcave. Stipules on the stem minute,
ovate, and scale-like; larger above, rounded oval.
Flowers dioicous, bracts of female flowers equal
to the median leaves, apex recurved, bifid, entire
or toothed. Perianth three times longer than the
leaves, narrowly fusiform, three-cornered,.connivent
at the apex, shortly fimbriate, at length dehiscing
irregularly.— {Plate 6, jig. 74.)
Sub-Genus. CEPHALOZIELLA, Spruce.
Cephalozia divaricata, Sm.
Stems creeping, fertile shortened ; leaves
complicate, concave, somewhat rounded, semibifid,
laciniae diverg ent ; st ipules lanceolate
awl-shaped, bifid ; perianth cylindrical, truncate,
plicate.
Jungermannia divaricata, Eng. Bot. t. 7 19
and t. 2463 ; Sp ru c e Trans . Bot. Soc. Edin.
III., 207. Jungermannia Starkii, Nees Eur.
Leb. I I . , 223 ; Gott. and Rabh. Exs. 107, 306,