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sertim in margine postico tarnen snrsum parum curvatis; colesula densissime 

 et grossissime hirta. 



Hab. ad arbores putridos prope Dui, cum fructu juniore, Maji 1861, 

 Glehn. — In Amuria quoque provenit. 



Cœspites laxiores, lurido-flavidulos et opacos, formans. Planta 1 — 1,5 cm. longa et 3—4 

 mm. lata, ut et folia prœsertim infeine interdum pnrpurascens, repens et siibstratui arctis- 

 sime adba3rens, ubique latere postico dense pallido-radiculosa, simples vel sub colesula im- 

 médiate bifurca ramisque interdum denuo bifurcis, caule fusco- vel purpureo-brunneo. Folia 

 densissime succuba, alternantia et nuUibi connata, explanata, subplana, brevissimo spatio de- 

 currentia, oblonga, superne ad basin caulis curvata ideoque obliqua, rotundato-obtusa, mar- 

 gine antico valde reflexa, apice et prsesertim margine postico sursum parum curvata, ubique 

 integerrima; cellulce sat magnse, rotundse, valde collenchymaticTe et paginis ambabus densis- 

 sime verruculosœ. AmpMgastria in apice caulis sat copiosa et longa, subulata, acutissima, 

 sursum curvata ad caulis latera, a seriebus duabus cellularum, eisdem folii simillimarum, 

 formata. Folia su?mna ceteris simillima, sed majora magisque obliqua, interdum retusa, ra- 

 rissime breviter emarginata. Amphigastrium summum maximum omnium, ovato-subulatum, 

 vulgo incisum. lobis acutis, integerrimum. Colesula apicalis, 3,5 — 4,5 mm. longa et 1,5 — 2 

 mm. lata, sœpissime basi purpurea, oblongo-cylindrica, supra medium e lateribus compla- 

 natula, ore compresse, ad latus curvato et ciliato, prsesertim ad basin densissime et gros- 

 sissime hirta, parte suprema tamen fere glabra, pilis divaricatis et rectis, basi latissima et 

 a duabus vel tribus cellulis colesulre affixis, ceteroquin a 2 — 4 cellulis constructis, cellulse 

 et colesuL-e et pilorum magnag. maxime coUenchymaticae et verrucosœ. Cahjplra gynomitrica, 

 stylo coronata, pistillidia sterilia 3 — 6 ad basin ejus. Theca, spor i et elaleres iramatura 

 solum visa. 



Planta mascula femineis intermixta et simillima, sed superne constanter purpurea et 

 densius amphigastriata, in axillis superioribus antheridia gerens. Bracteœ foliis minores, 

 integerrimse, basi saccatœ et in gremio bina — quaterna antheridia longe et flexuosule sti- 

 pitata, sed paraphyses nullas, occultantes. 



Quod ad hanc distinetissimam et curiosissimam plantam attinet, sequentes observationes 

 nobis in litteris (Dec. 22, 1871) sagacissimus amicus Richard Speuce misit, re vera editione 

 maxime dignas : „ Your Southbya verrucosa is a beautiful and most stränge plant! The pa- 

 pillœ of the lorver half of the perianth remind one of those of Lophocolea muricata N.-Es. 

 (rvhicJi, in reality, is a not venj remote allyl). This char acter, and the revolute antical 

 margin of the leaves (ad Plagiochilarum instar), render your plant worthy of constituting a 

 distinct subgenus, which you rnight call Lophura or Theliscyphus. — iMy genus Southbya 

 was founded on hut a single species. I was at that time afraid to generalize, otherwise I 

 ought to hâve included in it certain species, with the same type o f perianth, but with su- 

 bulate stipules (J. Taylori etc.), and others with bifid stipules (the Leptoscyphi), ivhich ?vould 

 hâve necessitated an extension and modification of the generic character"-. 



11. Mylia anomala (Hook.) B. Gr. 



Hab. inter sphagna ad Dui, sterilis, Maji 1861, Glehn. 



