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The plants are loosely tufted and more or less tinged with reddish 

 brown. The stems cling very loosely to the substratum or assume 

 an ascending position, rhizoids being scantily developed. In most 



Figure ii. — Frui.i.AiNia laxifi.ora Spruce 



A. Part of a robust stem, postical view, X i?- B. End of a female 

 brangh with perianth, postical view, X 17. C. Leaf, antical view, X 17. 

 D. Underleaf, the basal auricles flattened out, X 17- E. Cells from the 

 middle of a lobe, X 225. F. Innermost bracts and bracteole, X 27. G. — I. 

 Apices of the innermost bracteoles from three inflorescences, X 27. J. Trans- 

 verse section of a perianth at about the middle, X 27. The figures were 

 drawn from the specimens collected at San Miguel. 



cases the}^ are simply pinnate, the branches being distant and 

 quickly limited in their growth; occasionally a branch, especially 

 if bearing archegonia, gives rise to one or two short branches of 

 a higher order. 



Trans. Conn. Acad., Vol. XVllI. 23 April. 1914. 



