106 HEPATIC^. 



My figure 2, pi. xxxviii. is from the loioer portion of the stem. 

 In Hooker's "Brit. Jung.," pi. 65, f. 3, is a drawing of the 

 ii^)per portion of a stem and branches, with a perianth of the 

 true B. ciliaris. 



Blejjharozia 2JulGherrima (Hoffm.) differs from this species in 

 its smaller size, more procumbent habit, stems irregularly 

 dichotomously branched, leaves more finely ciliate, never with 

 segments entire on the stem-leaves, perianth cylindrical. 



Blejiharozia ciliaris is a very beautiful species, and not to 

 be confounded with any other, the nearest approach to it of our 

 British ones being Mast i r/ op ho r a Woodsii (Hook.), which differs in 

 the margin of the leaves being laciniate, not ciliate, in its bifid 

 stipules, which also are only spinose-dentate, not ciliate, and in 

 the very different cell structure. Trichocolea tometitella (Ehrh.) 

 was confounded by some of the older botanists with this species, 

 to which it has a superficial resemblance, but apart from the 

 differences at once revealed by the microscope, it is readily 

 distinguished by its pale green colour, whilst B. ciliaris has a 

 greenish to purplish-brown, or rich yellow. 



Description of Plate XXXVIII. — Fig. 1. Plant natural 

 size (Cader Idris, W. H. P.), 2. Portion of stem, antical view x 

 24 (ditto). 3. Stem-leaf X 24 (ditto). 4. Branch-leaf x 24 (ditto). 

 5. Portion of leaf x 290 (ditto). 6. Stipule x 24 (ditto). 

 7. Branch stipule x 24 (Ditto). 8. Sub-bract x 16 (Helsingfors, 

 S. 0. Lindberg). 9. Sub-bract x 16 (ditto). 10. Bract x 16 

 (ditto). 11. Bracteolex 16 (ditto). 12. Perianth x 1 1 (ditto). 



2. Blepharozia pulcherrima, [Hoffm.) Lindh. 



Jungermania pulcherrima, HofFm. Deutschl. Fl. 2, p. 83 (non Linn, f.) (1796). 

 Jungermania Leersii, Eoth. Tent. fl. Germ. 11, p. 402 (1800). 

 Jungermania Hojfmanni, Wallroth, Fl. crypt. Germ. 1, p. 51 (1831). 

 Blepharozia Hoffmanni, Cogn. Hep. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. (1872); Dum. Hep. 



Eur. p. 54 (1874). 

 Blepharozia jyulcherrima, Lindb. Muse. Scivnd. p. 5 (1879). 



Dioicous, csespitose, small, tawny or brownish-green in colour. 

 Stems procumbent or rarely suberect, irregularly repeatedly 



