ERE MO NOT us. 2<)1 



tlie end or middle of" branches, amentilbrm ; perigoiiial bracts 

 monandrons, distichous, somewhat simihir to the leaves, only 

 broader and more concave, bitid to about ^, segments obtuse. 



Obs. — This new genus diH'ers from Cejj/ialozia in its branches 

 being Literal, not postical, and from Hygrohiella, which is its 

 nearest ally, by its frontally compressed, not distinctly trigonous 

 perianth, absence of stipules, bracts of the female flowers being 

 distichous and the very different cell structure ol the leaves. 

 B. Kaalaas in litt. 



Eremonotus myriocarpus (6V//v.), IJinlb. §■ Kaahia-s. 



Diplophiillam, myriocarpum, Carr. in Carr. et Pears. Hep. Brit. Exsicc. n. 911 



(1870). 

 Jungermania myriocarpa, Carr. in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. p. ^(jO, t. IS, f. -i 



(18SU). 

 Hyyrohiella mip'iocarpa, Spruce, On Cephalozia, p. 7o (1882). 



Dioicous, densely csespitose, small, of a reddish-brown colour. 

 ■Stems :f to |- inch long, creeping at the base, rhizoinatous shoots 

 entangled, flexuose, resembling pale brown horsehair, terete, 

 ■ascending, rigid, interrupted, repeatedly innovant, branches 

 springing from one or both sides of the old axis, either ban-en 

 a,nd setaceous or fertile and with rapidly accrescent leaves, some 

 branches (upper) lateral, others (lower) postical flagelliferous and 

 rooting, rootlets sparse ; cells of stem 6 or 7 in diameter, 

 cortical 20, subquadrate, very little larger than the inner ones, at 

 first large and pellucid, afterwards, when dry, opaque. Leaves 

 on the lower portion of stem and branches distichous, approxi- 

 mate, erect, and appressed so close to the stem as to be readily 

 overlooked, ovate, ovate-quadrate, complicate, carinate-concave, 

 when explanate subcuneate, bifid to the middle, segments acute, 

 sinus acute, texture thin, chitinous, polished ; cells minute, punc- 

 tate, subquadrate, leptodermous, subpellucid. No stipules. 

 Flowers $ terminal, often on repeatedly innovant-proliferous 

 branches, innovations lateral, rarely postical, sometimes two 

 oppo.site, elongate. Bracts for the size of the plant large, 2-3 

 pairs, distichous, closely conduplicate and equitant, keel at an 



