306 HEPATIC^. 



plentifal, long, whitish, ascending to apex of stem ; simple or 

 innovantly branched, branches lateral, sub-postical, proceeding 

 from axil of leaves or from below the perianth. Leaves contiguous, 

 alternate, horizontal or slightly ascending, slightly decurrent 

 antically, secund or spreading, suborbicular, entire or slightly 

 refuse, undulate, lower leaves distant and smaller; texture flaccid, 

 epidermis smooth, cells roundish, medium size, lumen hyaline, 

 with few chloroph3dlose granules, walls distinct, angles thickened, 

 trigones small and often indistinct, stipules present near apex of 

 stem, absent below, subulate or suborbicular. Bracts broadly 

 oval or suborbicular, entire or emarginate, undulate, with a small 

 segment on one side near the base ; bracteole small, free, sub- 

 orbicular or obovate. Perianth projecting f beyond the bracts, 

 oblong, composed of a single layer of cells, about 200 round the 

 middle, terete at the base, trigonous near the middle and 6-plicate 

 at the upper part, mouth lobate, lobes entire, hyaline, delicate. 

 Calyptra very delicate, cells with thin walls, no trigones. Capsule 

 oval, dark brown. Spores dark reddish-brown ; elaters of a lighter 

 colour, bispiraJ, 20-25 turns of the spiral. 



Fruits October. 



Dimensions. — Stems about an inch long, diam. '3 mm. ; 

 leaves 1"6 mm. x 1*6 mm., 1'7 mm. x 1-4 mm., 1'6 mm. x •15mm., 

 1'5 mm. X 175 mm., 1*3 mm. x 1*3 mm. ; cells "04 mm., '03 mm., 

 '025 mm. ; trigones '005 mm. ; stipules '4 mm. x -5 mm., "5 mm. 

 X '6 mm.; bracts 1*5 mm. x 1*25 mm., 1'6 mm. x 1'5 mm.; 

 bracteole 1" mm. x "To mm.; perianth 3' mm. long x I'l mm. 

 broad ; pistillidia "225 mm. x "06 mm. ; spores "02 mm. ; elaters 

 ■125 mm. x -01 mm. 



Hab. — Growing in loose patches, or creeping amongst Sjjliagna. 

 Very rare. 



12. Barrowfield, Westmorland, G. Stabler, October 1878. 



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

 2. Portion of fertile stem x 16. 3-7. Leaves x 16. 8. Portion 

 of leaf X 290. 9-11. Stipules x 24. 12, 13. Bracts x 16. 

 14. Bracteole x 16. 15. Cross-section of perianth, lower half 

 x 24. 16. Ditto, upper half, near the middle x 24. 17. Portion 



