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Alar (cells) special group at basal 
angles. 
Alate (stem) bordered by leaf-sub- 
stance. : 
Angular (cells) those.of basal angles. 
Apieulate with short point. 
Apophysis basal enlargement of 
. eapsule. 
Appendiculate with small spurs. 
Areolation tissue of cells. 
Arista awn. 
Attenuate tapering. 
Auricled with ear-like angles. 
Barren sterile. 
Beak tip of lid (of capsule). 
Bifarious placed on two sides. 
Bifld cleft to middle. 
Cancellate latticed. 
Cernuous drooping. 
Cespitose forming matted tufts. 
Cilia hairlike appendages of inner 
peristome, 
Cireinnate rolled into a circle. 
Comal (leaves) the uppermost. 
Cochleariform concave as a spoon. 
Complanate flattened. 
Complicate folded together. 
Connate united. 
Costa rib of a leaf. 
Cribrose sieve-like. 
strongly curled. 
(calyptra) cleft at one 
Side; (leaf) involute at apex. 
Cultriform like a blade of a knife. 
Cuspidate tapering to an acute point. 
Deeurrent (leaf) prolonged down- 
ward upon the stem. 
Deflexed bent downward. 
Defluent running downward. 
Deopereulate without lid. 
rphous of two forms. 
hous in two opposite rows. 
Emarginate notched at summit. 
Entire without incisions. 
eulose rootless (without rhi- 
zoids). 
Exannulate without annulus. 
Exeurrent ending beyond apex. 
Fascieulate collected in small bund- 
es. 
Fenestrate with dilated apertures. 
Glossary. 
Filiform thread-like. 
Fimbriate fringed. 
Flagelle like a thong of a whip. 
Flexuous bending inward and out- 
ward. 
Fusiform spindle-shaped. 
Gemmiform bud like. 
Glabrous hairless. 
Habit general aspect. 
Heteromorphous of different forms. 
Homomorphous of like form. 
Hyaline clear as glass. 
Imbricate disposed like tiles. 
Immarginate without special bor- 
der. 
Immersed not emergent. 
Julaeeous like a roller (by appres- 
sed leaves). 
Lamelle small thin narrow plates. 
Lamina part of leaf (above a sheath). 
Lateral placed at the side. 
Limbate with a list (border). 
Lingulate tongue-shaped. 
Mamilla small nipple on lid or at 
apex of a leaf-cell. 
Muticous without hairpoint. 
Nodose nobbed. 
Oblong 3 times as long as broad. 
Obsolete indistinct. 
Obtusate not acuminate. 
Oval twice as long as broad and 
broader near middle. 
Ovate egg-shaped. 
Papilla small rounded prominence. 
Paraphyllia leaflike appendages. 
Pedieel stalk of capsule. 
Pereurrent reaching to apex. 
Pinnate branching on two sides. 
Plieate folded lengthwise. 
Pulvinate cushioned. 
itg pear-shaped. i : 
amose branching. GE 
Recurved, revolute, reflexed bent — 
back on the border. NN I. 
Rimose with narrow apertures. 
Rostellate (lid) with short beak. - 
Rostrate with long beak. 
Rugose wrinkled. 
Secund turned to one side. 
Serrate with teeth as a saw. ——— 
Serrulate with smaller teeth. dd 
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