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slender. Perigonial leaves tesminal. Antheridia 

 large, solitary, deep green, pedicellate. 



Genus 9. ANTHELIA, Dumort. 



Perichaetium many-leaved, everywhere im- 

 bricate ; perichaetial leaves palmate ; perianth 

 sessile, erect, cylindrical, plicate at the apex, 

 mouth toothed ; capsule four-valved, coria- 

 ceous, naked ; elaters double, naked, decidu- 

 ous. — Dumort. Rev. Jung. p. 18 (1835). Hep. 

 Eur. p. 97, t. 3,/ 23. 



Plants without stipules, leaves transversal, divided, 

 bipartite or palmate. 



Anthelia julacea, Linn. 



Stem erect, branched, leaves quadriianous, 

 incumbent, ovate, acutely bifid, segments 

 lanceolate ; perichaetial leaves everywhere 

 imbricate, palmate ; stipules none, perianth 

 cylindrical, plicate at the apex. 



Jungermannia julacea, Linn. Sp. 1601 ; 

 Hook. Br. Jung. No. 2; Engl. Bot. t. 1024; 

 Gott. and Rab. Exs. No. 126, 152, 467; 

 Cooke Hep. 1". 103. Anthelia julacea, Dumort. 

 Rev. Jung. p. 18; Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 

 35- 



In dense patches, in mountainous districts. 

 war. gracilis, Hook. Jung. fig. 3 and 15. 



