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Plants stipulate, rarely without stipules, leaves 

 incurrent, divided. 



" The species of this genus are a standing puzzle 

 to hepaticologists. They arc all so alike in habit, 

 and in their more obvious characters, that a casual 

 observer would unhesitatingly refer them to the 

 same genus; but when we try to define the species, 

 we find it difficult to assign them positive limits." 

 — Spruce Ifrp. Amaz. p. 368. 



Bazzania trilobata, Linn. 



Stem creeping, branched, leaves imbricate, 

 convex, ovate, apex truncate, three-toothed, 

 stipules broadly quadrate, three to five toothed, 

 six times shorter than the leaves. 



Jungermannia trilobata, Linn. Sp. 1599. 

 Hook. Br. Jung t. 76 ; Gott. and Rab. Exs. 

 18, 280. Jungermannia radicans, Hoffm. Eng. 

 Bot. t. 2232. Mastigobryum trilobatum, Nees 

 Syn. Hep. 231; Cooke Hep. f. 125. Plcuro- 

 chisma trilobatum, Dumort. Syll. Jung. p. 70. 

 Bazzania trilobata, Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 

 39, 187. 



In mountainous districts. 



Growing in large dense patches, sometimes ex- 

 ceeding a foot. Stems 3 to 5 inches long, creeping 

 horizontally upon the ground, sometimes simple, 

 innovant, at others dichotomously branched, 

 brownish. Flagellar about an inch long, from the 



