LEPIDOZIA. I 1 



Obs. — Distinguished from L. reptans by its dioicous inflores- 

 cence, its tawny to reddish-brown colour, more robust habit, stems 

 more erect and irregularly pinnate with long flagella, leaves more 

 closely imbricated, cordate-orbiculate (not quadrate), cells across 

 the base of segments more numerous, cells smaller and more opaque 

 with thicker walls. 



From L. Pear,^o)n, 8p., by its much more robust habit, shape 

 of leaves and stipules aiid androecia on short postical branches. 

 Collected first in the Ih'itish Isles by Miss Hutchins and recoo- 

 nised as distinct from L. repta/is by Hooker, who named it var. 

 pinnata, collected afterwards by Dr. Taylor, who made a new 

 species of it (Z. tumidula, Tayl.). It has been referred to by later 

 botanists as L. cupressina, var. ticinldida, but I am unable to detect 

 any difference between it and the type found in the West Indies 

 and South America. 



Description or Plate XL I II. — Fig. 1. Plant natural size. 

 2. Stem, antical view x 11 (Original o^ Lepidozia tumid/da, 'J'avl., 

 Dr. Taylor, Killarney). 3, 4. Leaves x 31 (ditto). 5. Portion 

 of leaf X 290 (ditto). 6-10. Stipules x 31 (ditto). 11, 12. 

 Bracts x 24 (Killarney, S. 0. Lindberg). 13. Bracteole x 24 

 (ditto). 14. Sub-bracteole x 24 (ditto). 15. Perianth x 11 

 (ditto). 16. Perigonial bract, with antheridium x 64 (Killarney, 

 G. A. Holt). 17. Perigonial bracteole x 64 (ditto). 



2. Lepidozia reptans (//.), Di(m. 



Jfuscoides ierrestre repens ex obscuro viresceud, foliis superioribus et hoferioribus ad 

 extremitatem dentatis, Mich. Nov. p]. gen. ji. 10, t. 6, f. '2 (1729). 



Lichenastrum multifidum exigv/um, ad basin florens, p)er siccitatem iinbricatimi, 

 Dill. Hist. Muse. p. 494, t. 71, f. 24 (1741). 



Jungermania reptans, L., Sp. pi. 1599 (175B). 



Pleuroschisma reptaiis, Dum. Syll. Jung. Eur. p. 69 (1S81). 



Mastigophora rejitans, Nees. Nat. Eur. Leb. 1, p. 10 i (1S;;:5). 



Lepidozia reptans, Dum. Kecueil. p. 19 (1^!35). 



Herpetium reptans, Nees. Nat. Eur. Leb. Ill, p. ol (18;^S). 



Monoicous, densely cjespitose, tufts depressed, Hagelliferous, 

 medium size, green, when older pale or yellowish-green, when dry 



