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under side of the stem, numerous, beset with 

 minute scales, jagged at the apex. Leaves more 



or less close and imbricate, 

 horizontal, in two rows, atten- 

 uated, ovate, cut at the apex 

 into three obtuse teeth ; surface 

 a little shining, olive green. 

 Perichaetial leaves embracing 

 the base of the calyx, com- 

 posed of small ovate scales 

 jagged at the apex. Calyx 

 oblong, narrower upwards, 

 59- mouth slit on one side, desti- 



tute of teeth, nearly white. Capsule ovate, dark- 

 shining brown. Elaters bispiral (fig. 59). 



Bazzania triangularis, Schl. 



Stem creeping, branched, leaves imbricate, 

 obliquely ovate, convex, apices crenate in front, 

 stipules orbicular, emarginate and dentate, 

 plane. 



Jungermannia triangularis, Schleich. II., No. 

 61. Jungermannia deflcxa, Mart. Erl. t. 3, f. 8. 

 Pleurochisma deflexum, Dumort. Syll. Jung. 71. 

 Mastigobryum deflexum, Nees Syn. Hep. 231 ; 

 Cooke Hep. f. 126. Bazzania triangularis, 

 Carr. in sched. 



var. a trirrcnata, Nees. Stem branched, 

 branches not divergent, leaves imbricate, 



