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much longer than the involucre, obovate from a 

 narrow base, compressed, truncate, and toothed. — 

 {Plate j, fig. 35.) 



Seapania nimbosa, Tayl 



Stem erect, leaves ciliately dentate, two- 

 lobed, dorsal lobule oblique-ovate, exceeding 

 the breadth of the stem, ventral lobule oblong- 

 ovate, spreading. 



Seapania nimbosa, Tayl. Trans. Bot. Soc. 

 Edin. II., p. r 1 5. (Cooke Hep. fig. 46 ?) 



Amongst moss, on mountains. 



Stems growing up through tufts of moss, red- 

 dish brown, 2 to 4 inches long, 

 loosely casspitose, erect, somewhat 

 branched ; leaves, except at the 

 very base, nearly of the same size, 

 the lower lobe patent, or de.flexed, 

 and so the shoots have a squarrose 

 appearance ; their texture is of very 

 minute cells. The lower lobe obo- 

 vate, rather acute, spreading ; the 

 upper lobe smaller, obovate, nearly 

 erect, somewhat imbricate, adpressed 

 to the stem, the connection between 

 the upper and lower lobes very 

 short, margins ciliate. 

 90- This was taken for 5. ucmorosa at 



first ; but it differs in the taller size, the more 

 deflexed lower lobes of the leaves, the slight join- 

 ing between the lobes, and the more considerable 

 and more distant ciliae of their margins. — Taylor. 



