104 IJJiuoist State Lahoratory of Natural History. 



19. J. Wallrothiana Nees. Blackish, very minute; 

 stems creeping, subsimple or innovate-branehing, 1.2 mm. 

 long, strongly radiculose; leaves wider than the stem, clasping, 

 firm, ovate-quadrate, closely imbricate, semivertical, concave, 

 connivent upwards, emarginate-bidentate, the sinus obtuse in 

 the lower, acute in the upj)er leaves, the teeth obtuse, entire; 

 involucral leaves larger, erect, tridentate, wavy-plicate, connate 

 at the base; inner involucre oval-cylindric, contracted above, 

 plicate, the mouth subdentate, pellucid, reddish below. (Gym- 

 nocolea affinls Dumort. var. B.) 



Hah.— On coarse sand, slopes of White Mts., N. H. {Oah'x). (Eu.) 

 jBt&.— Syn. Hep. p. 104; Hep. Europ. p. 66. 



fff Leaves bifid or bilobed. 

 J litmJiieral lea res cleft or lobed. 



20. J. Helleriana Nees. Stems creeping, intricate ; leaves 

 coniplicate-concave, spreading, subascending, bifid ^ — \ their 

 length, the lobes equal, acute, entire or serrate; involucral 

 leaves bi-trifid, spinulose-serrate ; inner involucre ovate, the 

 mouth contracted. (Diplophylhini Helleriaiiiim Dumort. j 



Hah. — On rotten wood; Can., N. Y., N. Eng.; rare. (Eu.) 

 Bih.—^yn. Hep. p. 120 ; Hep. Europ. p. 50. 

 DeKn.— Ekart t. XII, f. 103. 

 Exsic — Hep. Bor.-Amer. No. 44. 



21. J. minuta Crantz. Stems rootless; leaves compli- 

 cate-concave, spreading, bifid ^ — | their length, the lobes some- 

 what equal, ovate, acute or obtuse, entire or the gemmiferous 

 somewhat dentate; involucral leaves trifid; inner involucre 

 oval-oblong or subcylindric. ( Diplophyllum iin'mitKiii Dumort.) 



Hah. — On rocks in high mountain regions and northward to Green- 

 land ( VaJil). (Eu.) 



Bih.—Syn. Hep. p. 120; Hep. Europ. p. 49. 

 Delin.— Brit. Jung. t. 44 : Ekart, t. I, f. 3. 

 Exsic. — Hep. Bor.-Amer. No. 45. 



22. J. polita Nees. Stems subsimple, flexuous, blackish, 

 ascending; leaves shining, vertical, broadly clasping, flexuous 

 spreading, broadly cuneate-quadrate, 2-3-lobed, the margin ob- 

 tusely undulate-plicate; involucral leaves 2, very broad and 



