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Tricholea tomentella, Ehr. 



Stems dichotomous, thrice pinnate, leaves 

 hair-like, multifid ; stipules transversal, sub- 

 quadrate, four-partite, setaceous, multifid. 



Jungermannia tomentella, Ehr. Beitr. II., 150. 

 Dicks. Crypt. II., 14; Eng. Bot. t. 2242. 

 Hook. Br. Jung. t. 36. Trichocolea tomentella, 

 Nees. Eur. III., 1057 ; Gott. and Rab. Exs. 

 52, 272; Cooke Hep. f. 129. Tricholea to- 

 mentella, Dumort. Comm. p. 113; Carr. and 

 Pears. Exs. No. 10, n. 



On moist rocks. (Fr. March and June.) 



Forming dense tufts, sometimes several feet in 

 diameter, of a very pale glaucous green colour, and 

 tomentose habit. Stems 2 to 6 

 inches long and fiexuous, pri- 

 mary branches stout and forked, 

 secondary alternately pinnate, 

 spreading, often with shorter 

 pinnules. Leaves spreading, 

 much divided and subdivided 

 into numerous hair-like seg- 

 ments, so as to give the plant a 

 woolly appearance (fig. 54). 

 Stipules subquadrate, and 

 ciliate, between each pair 

 of leaves (b). Inflorescence 

 dioicous. Involucre clothed 

 with tomentose bracts. Pistillidia very numerous. 

 Capsule deep purple brown, striate. Spores dark 

 biown. Elaters bispiral. Male shoots more 



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