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tion spreading, texture thin. Inflorescence dioicous.
Involucral bracts somewhat larger and broader,
lobes obtuse. Perianth oblong, half-immersed,
apex recúrvate, obliquely truncate, entire. Calyptra
obovate.'— {Plate j , fig. 3 4 )
Scapania sequiloba, Sclnu., Dum.
Stem erect, leaves conduplicate, two-lobed,
lobes nearly equal, rounded ovate, acute, dentate
; perianth with dentate mouth.
Jungermannia cequiloba, S chwa g . Prod. p.
2 4 ; Ekart. Syn. Jung., t. ii., f. 90. Scapania
cequiloba, Dumort. Rev. Jung. p. 1 4 ; Gott.
and Rabh. Exs. No. 89, 169, 331, 404, 408;
Carr, and Pears. Exs. No. 1 5 9 ; Co o ke Hep.
f. 4 0 ; Carr. Br. Hep. p. 81, t. 8, f. 26 partly.
Crevices of rocks in subalpine districts.
var. a dentata, Gott. and Rab. Exs. 331.
Leav e s broader, ir regular ly
toothed, apical teeth largest.
var. ß inermis, Gott. and
Rab. Exs. 80, 404, 408.
Lobe s obovate, oblong,
somet imes cultriform, entire.
Stems shorter, gracile, loosely
tufted ; leaves approximate,
equi - distant ; texture firm,
olive brown, verrucose, divided for a short distance
into two nearly equal subdentate lobes (fig.
88); inferior lobe roundish ovate from a contracted,
reflexed base, shortly pointed, apiculate ; lobule
obliquely ovate, crossing the stem, spreading;
perianth halt-immersed, obovate-oblong, truncate,
inciso-denticulate ; capsule ovate. — Grrr.
“ The papillose leaves separate N. cequiloba not
only from N. resupinata, with which it was generally
confounded, but from all other Scapanice.”
Scapania subalpina, N., Dum.
Stem erect, forked, leaves two- lobed to
the middle, denticulate, lobes near ly equal,
rounded, toothed, na r rowly incumbent.
Jungermannia subalpina, N e e s ; Lind. Sp.
H^P- 5 5 - Scapania subalpina, Dumor t . Rev.
Jung. 1 4 ; Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No. 465;
Carr, and Pears. Exs. 226, 2 2 7 ; Cooke H e p ’
f. 41.
In sub-alpine woods.
var. unduUJolia, Syn. Hep. p. 65. Stem
more slender, radiculose be- >
neath, leaves broader, undu-
late, lobes spreading.
On rocks.
Leaves denticulate towards
the outside, equally distant,
soft, iinbricate, bifid nearly to
the middle, lobes rounded,
obtuse, nearly equal, closely
incumbent (fig. 89). Perianth