'IT ;
almost transverse, wcdgc-shapcd or rounded
quadrate, bifid half way, lobes complicate or
clivcrgent, triangular, acute, rarely obtuse, entire or
rarcly with a tooth, cells minute, subquadratc.
Stipules none, or here and there or everywhere
present, lanceolate or ligulate, sometimes bifid,
rarely trifid. Female flowers terminal on the stem
and long branches. Bracts trijugous, in three rows
larger than leaves, more or less connate, bilobate,
lobes acute and denticulate. Bracteoles scarcely
smaller, intermixed. Perianth linear, or narrowly
fusiform, emersed, whitish at the apex, rarely three
often four, five, or six angled, mouth constricted
and toothed, or nearly entire. Andrmcium variedly
placed on stem or branches, antheridia solitary.
flexuous, interwoven with thick radicles, sparingly
branched. Leaves distant, squarrosely patent,
minute, rather wedge-shaped, obscurely keeled,
deeply (to three-quarters) bilobedj entire, sinus
acute or obtuse, rectangular, lobes ovate or lanceolate,
subacuminate, twice as long as broad, often
incurved, apiculate ; cells minute, oblong, pellucid,
walls thickened at the angles. Stipules variable, the
lower minute or obsolete, the upper half as long as
the leaves and lanceolate, now and then connate
with a neighbouring leaf, then trilobate, the highest
rarely bilobed, and scarcely smaller than the leaves,
remale branches very short, bracts trijugous,twice
as long as the leaves, bilobed half way, sparingly
spinulosely toothed, lobes ovate, acuminate.— (Plate
2, fig- 24.)
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Cephalozia æraria, Pears.
Minute, tawny or pallid, cæspitose, stems
spar ingly branched ; leaves distant, rather
squarrose, wedge-shaped, keeled, and deeply
bilobate ; stipules variable. Inflorescence dioicous,
female branches v e r y short, bracts twice
as long as the leaves, bilobate and toothed.
Cephalozia ceraria Pears., Carr, and Pears.
Exs. No. 1 7 9 ; Sp ruc e Cephalozia p. 96.
Jungermannia Starkii, Carr, and Pears. Exs.
N 0.^33.
A t the mouth of an old copper mine.
Dioicous, cladocarpous, minute, tawny or pallid
bay, densely depiessedly cæspitose. Stems \ inch.
Cephalozia leucantha, Spruce.
Stems prostrate, flexuous, rather branched.
Lea v e s small, v e r y distant, oblong or su b quadrate,
bifid half way , lobes unequal, subulate,
parallel or connivent. St ipules none. P e r i anth
large, much exserted, three (rarely four)
angled above, mouth minute ; capsule large.
Jungermannia catenulata, Gott. and Rabh.
Exs. No. 4 3 3 - Cephalozia leucantha. Spruc e
on Cephalozia, p. 68.
On decaying trunks.— i^Plate 2, Jig. 26.)
Dioicous, almost always cladocarpous, growing
whitish, of the same size as C. divaricata. Stems
prostrate, males with female closely interwoven.