106 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH HEPATIC,*:. 



Male catkins on postical branches. Antheridia 

 solitary. — {Plate ./, fig. 61.) 



Cephalozia heterostipa, Spruce. 



Stems stout, radicellose, bifurcate, branches 

 postical and mostly flagelliform, leaves dis- 

 tant below, crowded above, oblong, acutely 

 bilobate, stipules small. Involucral bracts 

 loosely imbricate, 3-4 lobed, mixed with 

 smaller bracteoles. Perianth obscurely and 

 obtusely trigonous above, mouth rather wide, 

 six-lobed, lobes dentate. 



CcpJialozia Jicterostipa, Spruce Cephalozia p. 

 55. Jungcrmannia iuflata, Carr. in Gott. and 

 Rabh. Exs. No. 172. Sarcoscyphus sphacclatus, 

 Hepp. in Gott. and Rab. Exs. 137. 



On wet rocks in mountains. 



Dioicous, depressedly csespitose, green turning 

 reddish or bay, or sometimes orange, fragile. 

 Stems \ to 1 inch, intricate, stout, flexuous, radi- 

 cellose throughout their length, simple, or dichoto- 

 mous. Leaves diagonally inserted, lower distant, 

 spreading, oblong, or cuneate-oblong, rather acutely 

 bilobed for one-third, lobes obtuse or rounded, 

 upper leaves approximate and more or less imbri- 

 cate, chiefly about the female flowers and forks 

 of the stem deeper coloured, broader, cuneate, 

 bilobed one-half, or sometimes 3-4 lobed, 

 obtusely toothed ; cells 4-6 angled. Stipules 

 small or minute, now and then obsolete, coloured, 

 linear or subulate, entire, rarely bifid, segments 



