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Lejeunia inconspicua, De Not. 



Filiform, loosely branched, leaves distant, 

 rounded-ovate, entire, convex, involucral 

 rounded-oblong, spreading; without stipules; 

 perianth axillary, plicate, pentagonal, top- 

 shaped. 



Jungermannia inconspicua, Raddi. Jung. 34, 

 t. 5, fig. 2. Jungermannia minutissima, Tayl. 

 Trans. Bot. Edin., 1844. Lejeunia minutissima 

 ft, Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No. 216. Lejeunia 

 Taylori, Spruce Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. III., 

 212. Lejeunia inconspicua, De Not in Rab. 

 Exs. No. 45. Lejeunia minutissima var. ft, sine 

 amp/n'oastriis, Carr. Irish Crypt. 



On trunks, very minute. 



Stems hair-like, flexuous, loosely branched, hardly 

 conspicuous to the naked eye ; leaves few, vertical, 

 two-rowed, alternate, roundish, complicate beneath, 

 and ventricose, longitudinal fold nearly equal to 

 the leaves ; stipules absent ; perichaetial leaves 

 spreading, oblong, narrowly complicate ; calyx 

 terminal, broadly obovate, compressed, five-angled ; 

 mouth obtusely papillate ; capsule subspherical, 

 hyaline, cleft half way to the base. — {Plate i,fig. 5.) 



Lejeunia microseopiea, Tayl. 



Very thin, creeping, vaguely branched ; 

 leaves remote, ovate, lanceolate, acute, ventral 



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