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Ptilidium Woodsii, Dum. 



Stem procumbent, two to three pinnate, 

 leaves bifarious, two-lobed, spinulosely den- 

 tate, minute linear auricle at the base; stipules 

 ovate, bipartite, dentate, base spurred on both 

 sides. 



Jungermannia Woodsii, Hook. Br. Jung. 

 No. 66 ; Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2668 ; Mackay 

 Fl. Hib. II., 66. Sendtnera Woodsii, Gott. 

 and Rab. Exs. 367, 490; Cooke Hep. f. 131. 

 Mastigophora Woodsii, Nees Eur. Leb. 3, 93. 

 Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 128, 271. Blcpha- 

 rozia Woodsii, Dum. Rev. Jung. p. 16. 



On Irish mountains. 



Growing in large densely crowded patches, stems 

 procumbent, 3 to 5 or 6 inches long, flexuous, 



thread-like, once or 

 twice dichotomous, 

 beset throughout with 

 rather distant spread- 

 ing pinnae, which are 

 either simple or 

 again pinnate, dirty 

 brown. Leaves 

 closely placed, in the 

 extreme ramuli, 

 largest at the apex, 

 in the rest gradually smaller, everywhere imbricate, 

 and bifarious ; round or subquadrate, of two un- 

 equal lobes, the upper the largest, convex, divided 

 for half its length by an acute sinus into two ovate 



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