Notothylas] bepatics (Stephani). 32] 
A very carious plant, tl : the genus, extremely thin and 
very much branched, quite unlike any other species of Vototh 
involucre of the capsule is decumbent, being inserted on one sid< . bu< 
for a very shorl distance only ; very curious also is the inno\ . 
the frond from the base of the Emit, quite a new feature in tl 
of plants, of which the terminal cells are used up for the form 
the pistillidia. The elaters are formed inside a mother-cell (just like 
tli.- spores, I together) an.l an- ival t.-traln-drons : bul they I 
form and become inflated by the action of the spiral band 
they are set En ■ 
Notoihylaa has always numerous pistilla within one Aowei 
occurrence of 2 capsules jpi g from the same point is then E< 
surprising, though it has aever before been observed. 
