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Lepicolea scolopendra (Hook.), Dum. — Leaves erect im- 

 bricate tips decurved primary division 2-3rd, division of 

 the lobes nearly as deep, ventral margin with few subu- 

 late teeth, 2 mm. long. 



Very common. 



Asia to New Zealand. 



Lepicolea ochrolenca (Sprcnr/.), Spruce. — Leaves with a 

 rather broad stem-clasping base, divisions not extending 

 below th'3 middle, otherwise as in L. scolopendra. 



A doubtful species with many connecting forms. 



Common in woods. 



South Africa. South America. New Zealand. 



Bazzania, S. F. Gray. 



Plants mostly robust, stems repeatedly forked and 

 producing long small leaved flagella from the ventral sur- 

 face. Leaves incubous, piano-distichous, crowded and 

 imbricate commonly ovate with a three toothed apex, rarely 

 bifid with unequal lobes ; cells usually rather small with 

 thick walls ; underleaves always present, roundish quad- 

 rate 4-lobed or with an erose apex. Perianth on a short 

 basal branch, linear to fusiform, mouth usually fimbriate. 



Stephani in his Species Hepaticarum has adopted the 

 name Masfigohri/iim, but Bazzania is a prior name, and is 

 now the one more commonly used. 



1. Leaver 3 dentate 2 



Leaves 2 lobed 5 



2. Leaves linear-ovate accrefa 



Leaves ovate , 3 



Leaves with a middle series of long 



cells mon ilinerve 



3. Leaf margin entire or with few serra- 



tions involuin 



Margin and lobes with many serrations ... 4 



4. Underleaves much broader than long ... adnexa 

 Underleaves nearly rotund haileyana 



5. Lobes rather obtuse nearly equal colensoi 



Lobes acute very unequal anisostoma 



Bazzania accrcta (L. et L). — liCaves closely imbricate 

 slightly decurved, strongly so when dry, linear ovate, fal- 

 cate, 1.7 mm. long, apex narrow with 3 short unequal 

 broad diverging teeth, margin othei"wise plain or with one 

 or two minute serrations on each side below the apex, 

 cells 20-30 X 15 ^.., walls thick, trigones convex; under- 

 leaves rather bvoader than the stem, shortlv connate on 



