HARP ANT mm 259 



sterile by its horizontally inserted, plane leaves and oblong, deeply 

 bipartite stipules. 



Description of Plate CVI. — Fig. 1. Plants natural size 

 (Eng. Bot.). 2. Fertile plant magnified (ditto). 3. Portion of 

 stem, antical view x 11 (Bamford, G. A. Holt). 4. Ditto x 11 

 (Charlesworth, J. Whitehead). 5. Portion of leaf x 290 (ditto). 

 6. Stipule X 85 (ditto). 7. Ditto x 85 (Bamford, Gr. A. Holt). 

 8, 9. Sub-bracts magnified (ditto). 10. Bracts x 24 (ditto). 

 11. Calyptra x 11 (ditto). 12. Pistillidium x 85 (ditto). 13. 

 Spore X 290 (Charlesworth, J. Whitehead). 14. Perigonial 

 bract magnified (after Hooker). 



Genus 25. HARPANTHUS, Nees. 



Jmigermania, Web & Mohr. Bot. Taschenb. p. 408 (1807). 

 Harjmnthus, Nees, Nat. Eur. Lab. 2, p. 351 (1836). 

 Pleuraiithe, Tayl. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 5, p. 282 (1840). 



Dioicous, plants small, caespitose ; stems decumbent, radicu- 

 lose, stipulate. Leaves succubous, ovate^ emarginate or bilobed, 

 semi- vertically imbricated, sub-decurrent, flattened, secund. Sti- 

 pules numerous, lanceolate, connate with the adjoining leaves, 

 free margin reflexed, unidentate at the base. Fertile shoots very 

 short, postical (issuing from the axils of the stipules), at length 

 sublateral. Bracts small, 1 or 2 pairs with interposed bracteoles. 

 Perianth exserted, fusiform, terete, lower half thickened, mouth 

 contracted, 3-4-fid, segments unequal, entire. Calyptra fleshy, 

 adherent for f its length with the perianth, free only near to the 

 apex. Capsule 4-valved, coriaceous. Elaters bispiral. Male 

 plant more slender; perigonial bracts terminal, more concave, 

 enclosing 1-2 oval antheridia. 



1. Harpanthus scutatus [IF. et M.), Spruce. 



Jungermania scutatus, Web. et Mohr. Bot. Taschenb, p. 408 (1807). 

 Jungermania stipulacea, Hook. Brit. Jung. t. 41 (181G); Sm. Eng. Bot. t. 2538. 

 Lophozia scutata, Dum. Recueil, p. 17 (1835). 

 Harpanthus scutatus, Spruce, Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. Ill, p. 2G9 (1849). 



Dioicous, loosely coespitose, of a pale green colour. Stems 



