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vant, furcate; leaves approximate, narrower; 

 inferior lobe cultriform, shortly cuspidate, 

 plane, or slightly concave ; lobule about a 

 third as large, obliquely ovate to cuneiform, 

 acute, ascending ; margins entire, repand, or 

 minutely denticulate. 



Shoots minute, ascending, simple or innovant, 

 fasciculate ; leaves distichous, approximate, cleft 

 for half their length into two unequal lobes ; inferior 

 lobe obliquely obovate, apiculate, nearly plane ; 

 lobule much smaller, subquadrate, acute, erectly 

 spreading ; margins entire or subdentate ; perianth 

 half-immersed, ovate, compressed, subplicate, apex 

 truncate, inciso-dentate. — Carringtou. 



Scapania planifolia, Hook., Dum, 



Stem erect, simple, leaves unequally two- 

 lobed to the base, conduplicate, ciliately 

 toothed, posterior lobe larger, ovate, anterior 

 lobe cordate, twice shorter, perianth with 

 entire mouth. 



Jungermannia planifolia, Hook. Br. Jung. 

 No. 67; Eng. Bot. t. 2695. Scapania plani- 

 folia, Dumort. Rev. Jung. p. 14; Carr. and 

 Pears. Exs. Nos. 162, 229 ; Cooke Hep. 

 %• 50. 



Moist rocky places. 



Growing in closely crowded patches of a dingy 



