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Similar to C. Sphagni, but smaller, reddish or 

 verging on purple or violet. Stem rather short, 

 prostrate, intricately branched, flagelliferous, 

 attached by villose radicles, branches ascending, 

 naked at the base, leaves increasing in size to 

 the middle, then diminishing to the apex. Leaves 

 almost of the same form as in C. Sphagni, broadly 

 ovate or rounded ovate, oblique, obscurely de- 

 current, subconcave. Stipules on the stem minute, 

 ovate, and scale-like; larger above, rounded oval. 



Flowers dioicous, bracts of female flowers equal 

 to the median leaves, apex recurved, bifid, entire 

 or toothed. Perianth three times longer than the 

 leaves, narrowly fusiform, three-cornered, connivent 

 at the apex, shortly fimbriate, at length dehiscing 

 irregularly. — {Plate 6, Jig. 74.) 



SubCxEnus. CEPHALOZIELLA. Spruce. 



Cephalozia divaricata, Sm. 



Stems creeping, fertile shortened ; leaves 

 complicate, concave, somewhat rounded, semi- 

 bifid, laciniae divergent ; stipules lanceolate 

 awl-shaped, bifid ; perianth cylindrical, trun- 

 cate, plicate. 



Jungermannia divaricata, Eng. Bot. t. 719 

 and t. 2463 ; Spruce Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. 

 III., 207. Jungermannia Starkii, Nees Eur. 

 Leb. II., 223; Gott. and Rabh. Exs. 107, 306, 



