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Harpanthus Flotovianus, Nees. 



Stem ascending, leaves approximate, or- 

 bicular-ovate, obtusely emarginate ; stipules 

 ovate-lanceolate, bifid or entire, equally acu- 

 minate ; perianth cylindrical, subsessile. 



Jungermannia Flotoviana, Nees Fl. Ratis. 

 1833, p. 408. Harpanthus Flotovianus, Nees 

 Eur. Leb. II., 353 ; Gott. and Rab. Exs. 379, 

 417 ; Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 265. Pleur- 

 anthe olivacca, Tayl. Lond. Journ. V., 282 

 (1846); Lindb. Hep. Hibern. 516. 



Amongst Sphagnum, on wet rocks. (Fr. Spr. 

 and Sum.) 



Stems h to 2 inches, flexuous, procumbent, 

 creeping amongst mosses, mostly unbranched, 

 sometimes several stems from an old growth, of a 

 delicate green or tinged with brown ; rootlets 

 white, short. Leaves ovate, orbiculate, horizontal, 

 insertion of upper part in line with the stem, base 

 decurrent, curved forward. Apex contracted, 

 emarginate, sinus small and shallow, segments 

 rounded, upper tooth sometimes larger and acute, 

 then overhanging like a claw. Young shoots light 

 green or light olive, older plants often with a 

 reddish tinge. Stipules large, very distinct, ovate, 

 ovate-lanceolate, or lanceolate, acute, inserted 

 obliquely, some entire, others with a tooth on the 

 outer side about the middle, rarely toothed on both 

 sides. Leaf cells hexagonal. Dioicous. Male 



