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Mylia Taylori, Hook. 



Stem erect, nearly simple, leaves bifarious, 

 accumbent, rounded, concave, entire; peri- 

 chsetial leaves oblong, connate at the base ; 

 stipules awl-shaped ; perianth ovate, truncate, 

 rather two-lipped. 



Jungermannia Taylori, Hook. Br. Jung. 

 No. 57 ; Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No. 14 ; Cooke 

 Hep. f. 56, 57. Mylia Taylori, Carr. and 

 Pears. Exs. 91, 224; Carr. Br. Hep., p. 68, 

 t. 9, f. 30. Coleochila Taylori, Dumort. Hep. 

 Eur. p. 106. Leptoscyphus Taylori, Mitten. 

 Hook. Journ. III., 358. 



Moist rocks and boggy places. (Fr. Spring.) 



Shoots densely caespitose, erect, innovant, leaves 

 orbicular, coriaceous, horizontally spreading and 



reflexed from a saccate base ; 

 perianth ovate, as long again as 

 the roundish involucral bracts. 



Growing in rather large patches. 

 Stems erect, 2 to 4 or 5 inches 

 long, thread-like, flexuous, 

 simple, or sometimes innovant 

 near the extremity. Leaves 

 largest at the extremity of fertile 

 threads, everywhere close 

 and bifarious, slightly imbrica- 

 ting, alternate, horizontally 

 I4 °' I41 ' spreading, not unfrequently 



erect and secund, round or suborbicular, plane or 

 slightly concave ; margins entire, sometimes a little 



