Uepatlcii' of Xoyfli Aincriai. 78 



1<>. L. Jooriana Aust. Stems uiiimte. creeping, spar- 

 ingly branched, with hix foliage: leaves pale green, ovate, 

 obtuse. sonle^Yhat plane, scarcely papillose, the lobe moderate, 

 inflated, one-toothed: amphigastria wanting; inner involucre 

 minute, subovate, not compressed, the apex slightly 5-angled, 

 otherwise smooth. 



Hah. — On reeds, La. {Dr. Joor). 

 Bib.— Torrey Bull. YI, 20. 



L. biseriata Aust. is a doubtful species founded on few 

 l)roken stems without fruit that were mixed with other species 

 of this genus collected in 1845 by Sullivant near Augusta, Ga. 

 There is too much uncertainty regarding this plant to refer it 

 definitely. See Proceedings Phila. Acad. 1809, p. 225, also 

 Botanical Gazette. II. 142. 



IX. PHRAGMICOMA Dumort. 



Sporogouium on a very short lateral branch. Inner invo- 

 lucre somewhat depressed-plane and bilabiate, the mouth tri- 

 lobed or tridentate. Capsule quadrivalved a little beyond the 

 middle, membranous, pale, the valves erect-spreading. Elaters 

 persistent at the apex of the valves, erect, unispiral. Leaves 

 inflexed to the base beneath. Am])higastria entire. Name 

 from Gr. 2)hra(/nia. partition, and Ivonid. hair, from the position 

 of the elaters. 



1. P. clypeata Snlliv. Stems 1.5 — 2 cm. long, pro- 

 cumbent, somewhat pinnately branched; leaves whitish-green, 

 with the upper lobe round-ovate and deflexed, the lower oblong, 

 quadrate: amphigastria orbicular, approximate; inner involucre 

 lateral, sessile, obovate. obtusely cariuate dorsally. the margin 

 subcompressed. ( Jungermania clypeata Schwein., Lfjciiiiia 

 Throthece Lehm.) 



Hab. — On rocks and trees; common southward and westward. 



Bib. — Syn. Hep. p. 332 (sub Lfjeimia). 



Exdc. — Muse. Alleghan. Xo. 271 ; Hep. Bor.-Amer. No. 95. 



