102 HEPATIC^. 



Genus. 9. MASTIGOPHORA, Nees. 



Jungermania, Brid. Mss. Web.-F. Inst. muse. hep. prodr. p. 5G, n. 49, (1815); 



Hook. Brit. Juug. p. 18, n. 64 (1816). 

 Jungermania, sect. 2, Blepharozia, Dum. Syll. Jung. Eur. p. 46, p. p. (1831). 

 Jungermania, sect. 12, Plumulosce, Hiiben. Hep. Germ. p. 265, p. p. (1834). 

 Mastigojjhora, Nees. Nat. Eur. Leb. 1. p. 95, n. 3, et p. 101, n. 10, p. p. (1833); 



in Lindl. Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 2 ed. p. 414 (1835), et Nat. Eur. Leb. 3, 



p. 89, n. 1 (1838); Mitt, in Hook.-F. Handb. N.-Zeal. Fl. 2, pp. 752 et 754, 



n. 18-2 (1867). 

 Mastigo2')hora, sect. 2, Cladura, Nees Nat. Eur. Leb. 3, suppl. p. 574 (1838). 

 Blepharozia, Dum. Recueil, 1. p. 16, n. 15, p.p. (1835). 

 Sendtnera, Endl. Gen. pi, 1. suppl. p. 1342, n. 472-16 (1840). 

 Sendtnera, sect. 2, Mastigophora, G. L. N. Syn. Hep. p. 241 (1845). 

 Herberta, Carruth. in. Seem. Journ. Bot. 3, p. 300, p. p. (1865). 



Branches lateral, furcate or dicliotomous, rarely simple, apices 

 attenuate, decurved, secund. Leaves incubous, bifid to quadrifid, 

 often calcarate at the base. Perianth produced from near the 

 apex of the stem on a short, almost sessile lateral branch, some- 

 times on a longer branch, membranous, tubular, trisulcate, mouth 

 denticulate. Calyptra delicate, membranous. Capsule firm, 

 dividing to its base into 4 valves. Elaters dispiral. 



Mastigophora Woodsii (Hook.), Nees. 



Jungermania Woodsii, Hook. Brit. Jung. t. 6(! (1816). 

 BlejyJiarozia Woodsii, Dum. Eecueil, p. 16 (1835). 

 Mastigophm-a Woodsii, Nees Nat. Eur. Leb. Ill, p. 95 (1838). 

 Sendtnera Woodsii, G. L. N. Syn. Hep. p. 241 (1844). 



Inflorescence (?), loosely csespitose, very large, reddish to 

 purplish-brown in colour, paler below. Stem ligneous, somewhat 

 brittle when dry, reddish-brown, composed of thick-walled cells, 

 cortical, similar in size to the inner, only slightly darker, about 30, 

 inner brownish 10 x 10 ; flexuose, procumbent, bi-tripinnate, 

 branches lateral, branchlets long, attenuate ; rootlets few, pro- 

 ceeding from the attenuate branchlets, hyaline, delicate. Leaves 

 patent-divergent to patent, bifarious, imbricate, very convex, con- 

 duplicate, roundish or broadly subquadrate, unequally bilobed to 

 below the middle, antical smaller, lobes spinulose dentate, sinus 



