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one or more subfloral innovations; bracts and bracteoles similar, 
in about three series, those of the innermost series mostly 2.5-3.5 
mm. long and 0.7-0.9 mm. wide, suberect and appressed to the 
perianth, bifid a little more than one half with slender, acuminate, 
subparallel divisions, margin copiously and shortly denticulate or 
dentate to or just above the level of the sinus, otherwise entire; 
bracts and bracteole of the other series a little shorter and often 
squarrose, the divisions usually more or less divergent, the margin 
varying from denticulate to coarsely and irregularly dentate; 
paraphyllia occasionally present, small and irregular; perianth 
ovate, not contracted at the mouth, about 3.5 mm. long and 0.8 
mm: wide, divided for about half the length into six lanceolate, 
long-acuminate divisions, papillae numerous along the margins of 
the divisions near the base and on the inner surface of the perianth, 
usually sessile but sometimes borne on very short stalks: capsule 
brown, oval, about 1 mm. in diameter, splitting usually into six 
to eight valves; spores brown, about 25 2 in diameter, minutely 
echinulate; elaters brown, usually with two loose spirals, rarely 
with three, about 10 » wide. [PLATE 8. 
The following specimens have been examined: 
Norway: Lyse near Stavanger, July, 1897, £. Jérgensen (dis- 
tributed as H. adunca 6 Hutchinsiae in Schiffner’s Hep. Eur. Exsic. 
466; specimens from the same locality listed by Kaalaas, as H. 
adunca, in Nyt. Mag. f. Naturv. 40: 247. 1902). 
ScoTLaNnp: Moidart, Inverness, 1898, 1899 and 1go1, S. M. 
Macvicar (listed as H. adunca in Jour. Bot. 37: [3]. 1899; speci- 
mens from same region distributed as H. adunca B Hutchinsiae 
in Schiffner’s Hep. Europ. Exsic. 467); without definite locality 
or date, specimen from Hooker herbarium; Ben Vorlich, July, 
1901, S. M. Macvicar; Ben Lavigh, July, 1901, R. H. Meldrum. 
ENGLAND: Borrowdale, Cumberland, July, 1844, Mr. Brown; 
April, 1893, W. H. Pearson. 
Waters: Craig-y-can, Merioneth, May, 1877, C. J. Wild & 
W. H. Pearson (distributed as H. adunca in Carrington & Pearson’s 
Hep. Brit. Exsic. 42). : 
IRELAND: Bantry, Miss Hutchins; Killarney, B. Carrington 
(distributed as Sendinera adunca 6 Hutchinsiae in Rabenhorst’s 
Hep. Europ. 270); Brandon Mountain, D. Moore (distributed as 
“‘Sendinera juniperina Nees = Sendtnera adunca Dic mn ae 
Gottsche & Rabenhorst’s Hep. Europ. 491); same locality, no 
date, W. Mitten, several specimens; same locality, 1881, D. Mc- 
