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unequally two-lobed, inferior lobe larger. Amphi- 



gastna wanting. 



Scapania compaeta, Roth., Dum. 



Stem procumbent, nearly simple, leaves 

 nearly equally conduplicately two-lobed, lobes 

 rounded, entire, perichsetial leaves toothed. 

 Perianth with crenulate mouth. 



Jungermannia compaeta, Roth. Germ. III., 

 375. Jungermannia resupinata, Hook. Br. Jung. 

 No. 23. Scapania compaeta, Dumort. Rev. 

 p. 14; Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No. 143, 168, 

 445, 492; Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 19; 

 Cooke Hep. fig. 39. 



On loamy and heathy soil. (Fr. May, June.) 



Generally in small dense tufts. Stems \ to § 

 inch long, simple, rarely once or twice forked, pro- 

 cumbent, extremities erect when fruiting. Colour 

 reddish brown. Leaves closely imbricated towards 

 the extremities in fertile plants, 

 more distant in barren ones, bi- 

 farious, horizontal, roundish, divi- 

 ded into two nearly equal lobes, 

 each convex on the outer surface 

 (fig. 85), in the lower part of the 

 plant the inferior lobe is a little the 

 largest, all entire, except that some 

 of the terminal ones are micro- 

 scopically crenate, at the base de- 

 current, and half-embracing, of a 

 yellowish brown colour. Perigonial leaves similar, 



