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to M *>-9 ' f$ ' - Ifi ?3 T ffi ^ :> M ? JR > 111 /"JUt ? 

 10 : EK ffi M . 2 .-ll : fig ^ $ if M, --12 : H ft M -7- 



m , 14 = ^ \ 15 : ^*.-ie : 



Gloiopeltis cervicornis (Sur.) Schm. 



Norn. Jap. : Hana-funori. 

 PL. XCIV. 



Fronds dwarf, dendritic, caespitose rising from a callus disc, 

 subcylindrical or compressed, tapering toward the base into a short 

 stipe, subtubulose, densely branched in a manner between dichotomous 

 and pinnate, 1.5-4 cm - high. i-i-5 "im- broad. All the branches 

 reach on the same height, standing erecto-patent with roundish axils, 

 densely branched in the upper portion in dichotomo-pinnate manner 

 and with irregular ramuli issued from all the sides of branches ; ulti- 

 mate ramuli are often pectinate and apices of branches are all acute. 

 Frond has a ptrcurrent siphonous axis which is slightly flexuous, and 

 near the articulation lateral branches are emitted which pass gradual- 

 ly to the short moniliform cortical filaments by repeatedly dividing in 

 di-trichotomous manner. The central axis is densely surrounded by 

 abundant rhizoidal filaments which arise from infracortical cells as well 

 as from the branches of the axis and run in various directions by 

 repeated ramifications. Simple celled deciduous hairs are often carried 

 on cortical cells. Tetrasporangia densely scattered over upper 

 branches. Antlicridia are transformed from upper ramuli; antherozoids 



