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subreniform, repand-lobate ; upper amphi- 

 gastria ovate, 3-4 dentate ; pale green. 



Jungermannia scalaris P repauda, Hiib. Hep. 

 Germ. p. 81 (partly). Jungermannia silvrettcc, 

 Gott. and Rab. Exs. 470. Nardia repauda, 

 Lindberg. Carr. Br. Hep. p. 27. 



Stems \ to \ inch. Professor Lindberg states that 

 it is the common form in Finland. It has been 

 confounded with Jungermannia capitata, the large 

 form of which it resembles in the delicate crisped 

 hyaline leaves, and large areolae. — {Plate 6, Jig. yd.) 



Nardia sphacelata, Gies., Carr. 



Stoloniferous. Stems slender, flexuous ; 

 leaves rather distant, spreading vertically, 

 obovate, from a narrower sheathing base, 

 emarginate; lobes ovate, rounded; sinus 

 acute ; margin plane or inflexed ; involucre 

 oblong, connate at the lower third only ; 

 segments deeply lobed. — Carr. 



Jungermannia spJiacclata, Gies. in Lindbg. 

 Syn. Hep., p. 76, t. i., 1. 9, 13. Sarcoscyphus 

 sphacelatus, Nees Eur. Leb. I., p. 129 ; Gott. 

 and Rab. Exs. 519, 255. Nardia sphacelata, 

 Carr. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., 1870, p. 378; 

 Carr. Brit. Hep., p. 11, t. 2, f. 5; Carr. and 

 Pears. Exs. No. 4. 



Forming extensive livid tufts on the borders of 

 Alpine streams. Scotland, Ireland. 



