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waved, slightly recurved at the extremity, base 

 decurrent, and obliquely half embracing (fig. 141). 

 Substance thick. Colour yellowish-green at the 

 base,assuming a purplish tint towards the extremity. 

 Stipules minute, widely subulate (fig. 140). Peri- 

 chsetial leaves one erect pair at the base of the 

 calyx, margins a little waved. Calyx ovate, not 

 plicate, cylindrical, but compressed at the apex, 

 and truncate, obsoletcly toothed, and two-lipped. 

 Capsule dark brown, furrowed. Elaters short, 

 bispiral. 



Mylia anomala, Hook. 



Shoots scattered, creeping, mostly simple ; 

 leaves rather distant, subsecund, diversiform, 

 roundish-ovate, obtuse to ovate, acuminate, 

 concave ; texture thinner than in M. Taylori. 

 Perianth ovate-oblong, thrice the length of the 

 involucral bracts, which are ovate. 



Tungermannia anomala, Hook. Br. Jung. 

 No. 34; Eng. Bot. t. 2518. Jungermannia 

 Taylori v. anomala, Nees Eur. Leb. II., 455 ; 

 Gott. and Rabh. Exs. 113, 236, 414, 415. 

 ColcocJiila anomala, Dumort. Hep. Eur. 106. 

 Mylia anomala, Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 225. 

 Mylia Taylori anomala, Carr. Br. Hep. p. 70, 

 t. 9, f. 29. 



In scattered tufts among SpJiagmnn. 



Sir W. Hooker states that the principal differ- 

 ence between these two species consists in the 



