DAS MOOSBILD OF DR. ERNST IIAMPE. 



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Many excellent remarks are given on the Hypnacea?, and the 

 onus is as follows : — 



arrangement of the 



The Amphicarpi have peculiar foliaceous appendages, and their 

 position among the other moss-families has been very unsettled. 

 Gamophylleae correspond to Fissidentacca?, and, as the author well 

 observes, the amplexicaul part is not a cleft portion of the leaf, nor 

 an auricle or lamina appended to it, but truly an independent organ 

 or Tegumentum akin to stipules, which has become organically 

 united to the vertical leaf. Heterophyllea? comprise only Schisto- 

 stega, in which normal leaves are found only on the barren stem, 

 those of the fructiferous stem being regarded as stijmlar leaves. 



Hypophyllen correspond to the elegant frondiform group of 

 Hypopterygiaceae, which have a series of peculiar stipule's attached 

 to the underside of the stem. 



