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ovate, (juadrate, entire or obtusely emarginate, rarel}- acutely 

 bifid ; texture somewhat firm, cells medium size, 4-, 5- and G- 

 sided, walls thin, no trigones. Stipules oblong, bifid to below the 

 middle, segments subulate, outer margin unidentate, on young 

 branches bifid only or minutely unidentate on one side. Sub- 

 bracts (perigonial) oblong roundish quadrate, emarginate or entire, 

 lobulate or deeply unidentate at the base, one or two roundish 

 antheridia enclosed in the lobule. Sub-bracteole oblong, bifid or 

 trifid, segments subulate, acuminate. Bracts closely imbricate, 

 oblong quadrate, roundish, or oblong-quadrate, entire or obtusely 

 emarginate, margin entire or furnished with one or two teeth, 

 lobulate or elobulate. Bracteoles oblong bifid to about the middle 

 segments subulate, margin sparsely laciniate-dentate. Perianth 

 terminal on main stem or branches, projecting about half beyond 

 the bracts, ovate, obtusely triangular, mouth wide, trilobate 

 dentate. Calyptra ovate, thin, delicate. Capsule ovate, dark 

 brown. Spores and elaters brown. 

 Fruits March, April, May. 



Dimensions. — Stems |- to 1 inch long, -25 mm. diam., with 

 leaves 2* mm. wide ; leaves 1" mm. x 'G mm., V'l mm. x 1' mm., 

 1*25 mm. x '8 mm. ; cells '03 mm. x '05 mm., "03 mm. x "035 mm., 

 •04 mm. X '035 mm. ; stipule '9 mm. x "3 mm., segments "55 mm. ; 

 sub-bract 1*4 mm. x "9 mm.; sub-bracteole \'\ mm. x 6 mm., 

 segments "G mm. ; bracts 1'4 mm. x 1' mm., 1"4 mm. x '8 mm.; 

 bracteole r2 mm. x '7 mm., segments "5 mm. ; perianth 2* mm. 

 X 1* mm. ; antheridia "15 mm. x '14 mm. 



Hab. — Growing usually at the base of trees or on rotting 

 wood. 



Common. 1-5, 7-14, IG. I. 

 Found on the Continent and in North America. 

 Obs. — Difi'ers from Lophocolca hhlonlata (L.) by its being 

 paroicous ; from L. ct/spldafa, Limpricht. by its usually smaller 

 size, its variously shaped leaves, entire, emarginate and bifid — 

 hence its name. 



Growing with it are often very small young stems with leaves 

 deeply bifid, stipules bipartite with a smull tooth on one side. 



