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tance into two nearly equal subdentate lobes (fig. 

 88) ; inferior lobe roundish ovate from a contracted, 

 reflexed base, shortly pointed, apiculate ; lobule 

 obliquely ovate, crossing the stem, spreading ; 

 perianth half-immersed, obovate-oblong, truncate, 

 inciso-denticulate ; capsule ovate. — Carr. 



"The papillose leaves separate 5. aquiloba not 

 only from 5. resupinata, with which it was generally 

 confounded, but from all other Scapanm." 



Scapania subalpina, N. t Dum. 



Stem erect, forked, leaves two-lobed to 

 the middle, denticulate, lobes nearly equal, 

 rounded, toothed, narrowly incumbent. 



Jungermannia subalpina, Nees ; Lind. Sp. 

 Hep. 55. Scapania subalpina, Dumort. Rev. 

 Jung. 14; Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No. 465; 

 Carr. and Pears. Exs. 226, 227; Cooke Hep. 

 f. 41. 



In sub-alpine woods. 



var. undulifolia, Syn. Hep. 

 more slender, radiculose be- 

 neath, leaves broader, undu- 

 late, lobes spreading. 



On rocks. 



Leaves denticulate towards 

 the outside, equally distant, 

 ic soft, imbricate, bifid nearly to 

 the middle, lobes rounded, 

 obtuse, nearly equal, closely 

 incumbent (fig. 89). Perianth 8 9- 



Stem 



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