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Ex ^- 7 2 , 73, 217, 2 50- 2 3 2 ; Cooke Hep. 

 f. 98, 99 ; Carr. and Pears. Exs. 34. Cephalozia 

 curvifolia, Dumort. Rev. Jung. 18; Carr. and 

 Pears. Exs. No. 257, 258 ; Spruce Cephalozia 

 p. 47. 



On dead wood, rocks, &c. 



Forming small loose patches of a deep purple 

 colour. Stems | to § inch long, stellately branched, 



procumbent, flexuous, 

 branches simple, or forked, 

 delicate, flexible. Leaves 

 rather closely placed, bifari- 

 ous, remarkably concave, 

 roundish, approaching to 

 ovate, broader than long, 

 divided half way down 

 from the apex by a rather 

 obtuse sinus, segments 

 acuminate, incurved in a 

 striking manner (figs. 74, 

 75). Cells oblong with a 

 pellucid border (fig. j6). Perichaitial leaves 

 six or seven, resembling the rest, but the 

 segments less acuminate, and not incurved. 

 Calyx oblong or oblong-ovate, a little 

 plicate above, mouth somewhat contracted, 

 with a few short teeth. Capsule ovate, deep brown. 

 Elaters bispiral. 



Dr. Carrington contends that this is the most 

 distinct and least variable of all the bicuspidate 

 species. Eng. Bot. t. 1304, and Hooker's Jung, 

 t. xvi., both represent states of C. bicuspidata. 



It occurs in neat compact strata, the stems 



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