122 HEPATIC^. 



form male flowers. Leaves small, more or less distant, rarely sub- 

 contiguous, obliquely incubouS; patent or erecto-patent, subquadrate, 

 usually more than half or to the middle palmitifid, segments 4, 

 very rarely 5 or 6, subulate, subacuminate incurved, uncinate, at 

 the base 3-5 cells broad, the two middle ones broadest, postical 

 shorter ; cells medium size, subquadrate-hexagonal, a little elong- 

 ate, subpellucid, walls thin, sometimes with the angles slightly 

 thickened, branch leaves smaller 3, 4-fid, upper ones longer and 

 narrower, profoundly bifid. Stipules shorter than the leaves, sub- 

 rotund to subquadrate, divided to about the middle, segments 4 

 rarely 5 and more rarely 6, broadly subulate, obtuse, incurved. 

 Androecia spicate at the apex of delicate lateral branches, rarely 

 at base, more rarely on short postical branches ; perigonial bracts, 

 3-10 pairs, slightly smaller than the leaves, imbricate, concave, 

 swollen, bilobed, rarely with an additional antical basal tooth, lobes 

 ovate, acute, incurved ; bracteole subquadrate, longer than broad, 

 bi-trilobed, antheridia solitar}^ large, oval, shortly stipitate. 



Habitat. Creeping loosely amongst mosses and other hepatics 

 on steep banks or rocks. Rare. 



7. Tyn-y-Groes, Merionetlishire, W. H. P., A-pril 1879. 8. 

 Kinder Scout, Derbyshire, ./. Whitehead nnd G. A. Holt, March 1884. 

 12. Borrowdale, Cumberland, W. H. P., Skelwith Bridge, West- 

 morland, W. H. P. 13. New Grail oway, /. Mc Andrew. 16. Banks 

 of Loch Maree, Argyle, JJr. Carriiifjtou, October, 1889, Moidart, 

 West Inverness, S. M. Macvicrrr, 1898, ir. IT. P., 1899. Norway. 



Dimensions. — Stems 1 to 2 inches long, 2 mm. in diameter, 

 with leaves '5 mm. wide; leaves '55 mm. x '45 mm. middle seg- 

 ment, '35 mm., "4 mm. x "4 mm. seg., "2 mm., "4 mm. x '3 mm. seg., 

 '2 mm., '5 mm. x "Smm. seg., "25 mm., 4 mm. x "35 mm. seg., "2 

 mm. : cells '033 mm., '05 mm. x '03 mm., "025 mm. x '035 mm., 

 •04 mm. X -025 mm., '045 mm. x ^03 mm. ; stipules '3 mm. x •4mm., 

 *275 mm. x '3 mm. ; segments "1 mm., '35 mm. x '375 mm. seg., 

 •15 mm., "3 mm. x '35 mm. seg., '15 mm. ; perigonial bracts '4 mm., 

 •475 mm. X '3 mm. seg., '225 mm., "35 mm. x "3 mm. seg., "15 mm., 

 •4 mm. X '4 mm. seg , "15 mm. ; perigonial bracteole "2 mm. x '2 

 mm. segments, "075 mm. ; antheridia *13 mm. x *1 1 mm. 



