so A PAN! A. 211 



Carrli/f//o)i. 1 1 . Egleston, Tees-side, /. G. Baker. Teesdale, 

 r. Mncld. 



Eare on the Continent. 



Obs. — Distinguished from small forms of S. feqnilohd by its 

 smooth epidermis, from S. ciirfa by its more equal lobes and 

 distinctly accrescent liabit. 



Description of Plate LXXXI. — Fig. 1. Stems natural size. 

 2. Fertile stem x IG (Bolton Woods, Dr. Carrington). :3. Por- 

 tion of sterile stem X IG (ditto). 4. Cross-section of stem x 24 

 (ditto). 5-7. Leaves flattened out x IG (ditto). 8. Upper leaf 

 X 16 (ditto). 9. Ditto flattened out (ditto). 10. Portion of 

 leaf, middle basilar cells x 290 (ditto). 11. Ditto, near marginal 

 apex (ditto). 12. Bract, flattened out x 16 (ditto). 13. Perianth 

 X 16 (ditto). 14. Portion of the mouth of perianth x 85 

 (ditto). 15, 16. Perigonial bracts x 24 (Switzerland, Jack). 

 17, 18. Gemmae x 290 (Bolton Woods, Dr. Carrington). 



3. Scapania subalpina {Nccs)^ Duni. 



Jungermcmia subalpina, Nees in Syn. Hep. Eur. p. 55 (1829). 

 Scapania suhalpina, Dum. Recueil, p. 14 (1885). 



Dioicous, csespitose, small, pale green to brown in colour. 

 Stems reddish, simple or slightly branched, innovant branches 

 (2, 3 or 4) produced from the postical base of old perianth, erect, 

 rootlets few, hyaline. Leaves patent (50°), imbricate, divided 

 almost to the middle into two subequal lobes, appressed, closel}' 

 incumbent, rotundate or slightly apiculate, antical lobe a little 

 smaller than the postical, subrotund to subquadrate, entire or very 

 slightly denticulate, postical lobe subrotund or broadly rotund, 

 denticulate or rarel}' entire ; texture delicate, lax, epidermis 

 smooth, cells smallish, 4-, 5- and G-sided, walls thin, trigones none. 

 Bracts similar to leaves. Perianth oblong, truncate, mouth entire. 

 Perigonial stems with the c? in the middle or terminal, bracts 

 little different from the leaves. 



Fruits May, June. 



H.\B. — On sandy soil or amongst mosses in subalj^ine or alpine 

 districts. Kare. 



