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Stlpiilos free (Canada, Macoiin). HJ, 17. Sub-bracts x 04 

 (llcrl). Liiidb.). IH. IJracts and connate braeteole x 04 (ditto). 

 \\). liracteole x 1 (ditto). I'O. IVrianth x 31 (ditto). 

 •J I. Portion of nioutli of })erianth x 85 (ditto). l22. Pistil- 

 lidiuni x 85 (ditto). 



Subgenus 4. SPHEXOLOBTiS, fJudh. 



Junffetin/inia, sect. c. S phenol oh m^, \j\\\([h. Mu.sr. Sriind. p. '.• (1H7;)). 



Dioicous, stems simple, furcate or dichotomonsly branclied, 

 leaves transversely inserted, bilobcd ; stij)ule.s absent; bracts 

 ((uadriHd ; })eriantli oval or obovate, upper portion 5-, G-plicate. 



31. Jungermania minuta, Cranlz. 



Jnnget'mania minuta, Crantz ex Dicks. Pi. crypt. Brit. fasc. 1 1 , p. 1:! (17!l(»); 



Hook. Brit. Jung. t. 44 (IHIC); Sm. Eng. Bot. t. 22.; I. 

 JiuKjermania hiconiis, Web. et Mohr Bot. Taschenb. p. 12.') (1S07). 

 Juivjernuinia Weheri, Mart. Fl. crypt. Erlang. p. l")?, t. .'), f. W.) (1H17). 

 DiplophjiUnm minnttnn, Dum. Recueil, p. K! (IH;*),")). 



Dioicous, growing in loose or entangled patches, or amongst 

 mosses, small to medium in size, of a brownish or yellowish-green 

 colour. Stems creeping, suberect or erect, simple or dichotomously 

 branched, branches produced from the axils of the leaves, between 

 lateral and postical, more postical, filiform, rigid, fiexuose, some- 

 what brittle when dry, cortical and next inner layer of cells dark 

 brown, inner white, indistinct, small ; radiculose, rootlets few, long, 

 hyaline. Leaves bifarious, distant, contiguous or imbricate, pec- 

 tinate, transverse or patent-divergent (70 ), outline subcjuadrate 

 or ovate when flattened out, subconduplicate, margin <|uite entire, 

 bilobed to about v^, sinus acute or rounded, segments unequal, 

 antical slightly smaller, acute or rarely obtuse, sometimes apicu- 

 lato; texture iirm, e])iilermis slightly verruculose, cells minute to 

 rather minute, subcpuidrate, near base of loaf st)mctiines a little 

 elongate, walls thick, no trigones, guttulate. No stipules. Jiracts 

 larger than the loaves, two, (puKlriful om- bract often with a large 



