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short branches thickened at the apex, leaves semi- 

 vertical, closely imbricate, rather concave, quadrate, 

 or roundish, loose, reticu- 

 late, the lower lunately, the 

 upper deeply and obtusely 

 emarginate, bi- or tri-fid, 

 laciniae unequal and acute 

 (fig. 134). Bracts trifid or 

 quadrifid, rather serrate, 

 connate at the base, thus 

 ternate or quaternate. 

 Perianth short, ovate-triangular, 

 denticulate. Stipules absent. 



i34- 

 plicate, 



mouth 



Jungermannia capitata, Hooke. 



Stem prostrate, simple ; leaves erect, 

 rounded-quadrate, lower bifid, the rest and 

 perichaetial leaves 3-4-fid; stipules none; 

 perianth terminal, ovate. 



Jungermannia capitata. Hook. Br. Jung., t. 

 80 ; Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 242 (variety). 



On turfy soil. 



Growing in small pale-green patches, stems £, 

 rarely \, inch long, almost always simple, 

 greenish, with numerous pellucid radicles. Leaves 

 rather closely ranged in two rows, sometimes 

 spreading or nearly horizontal, generally nearly 

 erect, roundish, approaching quadrate, those 

 at the base smallest and bifid, the rest increasing 

 in size upwards, and trifid or quadrifid, segments 

 unequal, a little waved and acute. At the very 



