BLEPHABOZIA. 107 



dicliotomously ramose, branches ascending, cortical cells about 20, 

 walls golden-brown, inner hyaline 8 x 10, slightly frontally 

 compressed. Leaves crowded, patent, incubous, imbricate, con- 

 duplicate, semirotund, trifid or quadrifid to about a third or 

 more, segments broadly lanceolate subulate, margin and segments 

 with long cilia, cells medium size, roundish, walls thick, angles 

 thickened. Stipules about half the size of the leaves, semirotund, 

 bifid to about a fourth, margin with long cilia. Bracts roundish- 

 oblong-quadrate, trifid to about a third, segments lanceolate 

 subulate, margin and segments with long cilia; bracteole ovate, 

 bifid to about a fifth, margin and segments with long cilia. 

 Perianth terminal on main stem or branches, projecting about 

 two-thirds beyond the bracts, cylindrical, composed of a single 

 layer of cells, about 100 round the middle, slightly obtusely 

 trigonous, mouth contracted, ciliate, cilia 3 cells long, few. Pis- 

 tillidia numerous, linear-lanceolate. Androecia terminal or situ- 

 ated on the middle of the branches, perigonial bracts 4-6, small, 

 closely imbricate, saccate at the base, subrotund, bifid to below the 

 middle, margin and segments ciliate, antheridia oval, large. 



Dimensions. — Stems ^— | inch long, diam. 'S mm.; leaves 

 175 mm. X 2" mm., segments '75 mm,, -5 mm., 1"5 x 175, seg- 

 ments 75 mm., '6; cells -03 mm., -03 x '035 ; stipules -85 mm. 

 X 1* mm., segments '4 mm., '2 mm.; bracts 1*25 mm. x "9 mm., 

 segments '6 mm., '5 mm.; bracteole 1.25 mm. x l* mm; perianth 

 3" mm. X 1* mm., cilia at the mouth -2 mm. long; perigonial 

 bract *5 mm. x "6 mm., segments '3 mm.; antheridia '2 mm. 

 X '15 mm. 



Hab. — Growing on trees and rocks. Rare. 10. On trees, near 

 Ooneysthorpe. .Z>r. Spruce. 15. Carn Fiaclan, Balmoral, Scotland, 

 G. Stabler. Found on the Continent and in North America. 



Obs. Distinguished from Blepharozla ciliaris (L.) by its smaller 

 size, more procumbent habit, brownish-green colour (never rose or 

 purple), its irregularly dichotomous spreading branches, not grace- 

 fully plumose and regularly bipinnate, its crowded, much more 

 ciliated stem leaves, segments never entire, and cylindrical 

 perianth, not oblong obovate. 



