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below, toothed above ; leaf-cells at the base, and part of the 

 way up, oblong ; in the upper part of the leaf minute, subor- 

 bicular, and prominent. 



ORDER XVII. BRYEI, Br. & Schimp. 

 Sporangium erect or cernuous, symmetrical, cylindrical, 

 pyriform or pitcher-shaped, even or sulcate ; peristome double ; 

 veil hood-shaped ; leaves, for the most part, marginate and 

 toothed, with large leaf- cells. 



51. CINCLIDIUM, Swartz. 



Sporangium pendulous, more or less pyriform ; ring small ; 

 veil small, fugacious ; peristome double ; outer of sixteen, 

 short, obtuse teeth, furnished with prominent membranous 

 plates on the inner side; inner a dome-shaped membrane, ad- 

 herent below, with sixteen perforations opposite to the outer 

 teeth, and as many keeled, narrow processes alternating with 

 them ; spores large. 



1. C. stygium, Swartz; synoicous; stems densely tomen- 

 tose ; leaves large, ovate or ovato-oblong from a narrow base, 

 apiculate ; border opaque, cartilaginous ; nerve reaching to the 

 apex or beyond ; sporangium pendulous, subrotundo-pyriform 

 or oval ; lid convex, obtuse. Hook. Wils. t. Hi. ; Eng. Bot. t. 

 2840. ; (Plate 17, fig. 1.) 



In spongy bogs. Yorkshire and Suffolk, in which latter 

 county it has been found by Mr. E. Skepper, who has kindly 

 sent me specimens. Bearing fruit in summer. 



Forming large tufts. Stems long, matted together with 

 purple rootlets ; leaves rosular at the apex, crisped when dry, 

 often coloured ; leaf-cells radiating from the nerve ; fruit- 

 stalks mostly solitary ; inner peristome deep sienna-brown, 

 the ribs red, and occasionally perforated, as is the membrane 



