104 HEPATICE. 



Genus 10. BLEPHAKOZIA, Bum. 



Ju7igerman{a, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 1601 ; Hook. Brit. Jung. (1816). 

 Blejyharozia (Section) Dum. Syll. Jung. p. 46 (1831). 

 Blepharozia, Dum. Recueil Jung. p. 16 (1835). 

 Ptilidium, Nees Nat. Eur. Leberm. 1. p. 1)5 (1833). 



Leaves incubous, appressed, palmatifid, or complicate-2-lobed, 

 each lobe divided and ciliate. Stipules 4-5-lobed, ciliate. 

 Perianth terminal on short branches. Bracts 2-5-lobed, segments 

 with long cilia. Perianth pyriform, obovate or sub-cylindrical, 

 inflated, smooth, mouth small and plicately contracted, ciliate. 

 Calyptra pyriform, coriaceous. Capsule divided nearly to the 

 base into 4 valves. Elaters bispiral. Antheridia covered by 

 closely imbricated perigonial bracts. 



1. Blepharozia ciliaris (Z.), Bmn. 



Lichenastrum scorjnoides pulchrum villosum, Dill. Hist. Muse. p. 481, t. 69, 



fig. 3 (1718). 

 Jungermania cilaris, Linn. Sp. pi. p. 1601 (1753); Engl. Bot. t. 2241; Hook. 



Brit. Jung. n. 65 (1816). 

 Blepharozia ciliaris, Dum. Recueil, p. 16 (1835). 

 Ptilidium ciliare, Hamp. Prod. fl. Here. (1836); Nees Nat. Eur. Leb. Ill, p. 117 



(1838). 



Dioicous, csespitose, large, greenish to purplish-brown. Stems 

 erect or procumbent, bipinnate, slightly frontally compressed, 

 cross-section showing 15 cells x 20, cortical cells about 80, one 

 or two rows with thicker, golden-brown walls, inner cells larger, 

 walls hyaline, thin; branches lateral, short, alternate, ultimate 

 pinnulse very slender, rootlets few, short. Leaves incubous, 

 almost transverse, patent, lower leaves somewhat distant or 

 approximate, upper- and branch-leaves imbricate, bifarious, 

 convex, conduplicate, roundish or subquadrate, quadrifid nearly 

 to the middle, segments lanceolate-acuminate, antical segment 

 largest, on lower leaves entire or furnished with a few long cilia 

 at the base of the leaf, next segment entire also, or with few 

 cilia, the postical segments smaller laciniate- ciliate, upper and 

 branch-leaves with margin and segments ciliate, cilia long. Epi- 



