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plane, cleft one-third of their length into two sharp 

 and equal segments, sinus rather acute 

 (fig. 32). Calyx widely obovate, cylin- 

 drical at the base, gradually enlarging 

 upwards, furnished with five longitudi- 

 nal angles, mouth small, protruding into 

 32 ' a short tube. Capsule spherical, white, 



transparent, split half down in four valves. Elaters 



bispiral. 



Lejeunia diversiloba, Spruce. 



Shoots irregularly branched, branches 

 divaricate, leaves incubous, vertical, large lobe 

 oval, obtuse, entire, lobule variable in form, 

 nearly equal, half the size, or obsolete, sub- 

 quadrate, notched at the outer angle ; stipules 

 bifid, segments narrow, acute, dioicous. 



Lejeunia cucullata & stricta, N. L. and G. 

 Syn. p. 390. Lejeunia miuutissinia f3 major, 

 Carr. Irish Crypt., 1863. Lejeunia diversiloba, 

 Spruce Journ. Bot., July, 1876. Carr. and 

 Pears. Exs. No. 281; Journ. Bot., Feb., 1887, 

 p. 38. Carr. Trans. Bot. Ed. XIII., p. 468, 

 tab. 17, fig. 1. 



Growing on prostrate mosses and hepatics. 



Epiphytic on Frullania, &c. — Shoots filiform, 

 rigid, irregularly branched; branches divaricate: 

 leaves incubous, approximate, vertical ; large lobe 

 oval, or ovate, obtuse, slightly concave, pellucid, 



