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Growing in small loose patches, pale yellowish 

 green. Stems thread-like, flexu- 

 ous, procumbent, | to I inch or 

 more, semi-pellucid, delicate, 

 branched in a somewhat stellate 

 manner, branches again sub- 

 divided. Leaves bifarious, erect 

 or spreading, more or less distant, 

 minute, orbicular, decurrent at 

 the base, concave above, convex 

 below, cleft at the apex by an 

 orbicular notch, hence the seg- 

 ments are connivent (fig. y$). 

 Perichaetial leaves five to ten, 

 the exterior bifid or trifid, with 

 straight segments, the intermediate more oblong 

 and trifid, the interior oblong, divided into four or 

 five linear erect segments, so as to be almost 

 palmate. Calyx oblong-ovate, attenuated at the 

 base, semi-transparent, mouth contracted, ciliate. 

 Calyptra ovate, whitish. Capsule ovate, deep brown. 

 Elaters bispiral. 



lanceolate 



Cephalozia curvifolia, Dicks. 



Stem creeping, branched, leaves semi-ver- 

 tical, erect, rather rounded, concave, lunate, 

 segments incurved and cornute ; perichaetial 

 leaves everywhere imbricate ; stipules none ; 

 perianth terminal on lateral branches, oblong. 



Jungermannia curvifolia, Dicks. Crypt. II., 

 p. 13, t. 5, f. 7; Hook. Br. Jung. t. 15, suppl. 

 t. 1; Mack. Hib. II., 60; Gott. and Rabh. 



