386 HEPATIGjE. 



(Loch-na-gar, J. & T. Sim). 6. Portion of leaf x 290 (ditto). 

 7, 8. Bracts x 31 (Norway, Norrlin, S. 0. L.). 9. Innermost 

 bracts with portion of perianth x 31 (ditto). 10. Perigonial 

 bract X 31 (Lago Lucendro, G. Davies). 11. Bract x 16 

 (Loch-na-gar, J. & T. Sim). 



7. Marsupella Stabler!, Spruce. 



Marsupella Stahleri, Spruce, " Revue Bryol." p. 7G (1881). 



Dioicous, densely csespitose, small, from brownish green to 

 purple, often with the apices of the stems of a beautiful rosy- 

 purple colour. Stems intricately entangled, suberect or creeping, 

 rhizomatous; radiculose, rootlets few, short, white, substolon- 

 iferous, microphyllous, rarely aphyllous ; filiform, ramose, branches 

 fastigiate, subequally foliose, female clavate, below the flowers 

 often dichotomous or innovantly fasciculate. Leaves subimbricate, 

 subpellucid, erect, appressed, broadly ovate-quadrate, carinate-com- 

 plicate, to I rarely to about the middle bilobed, lobes acute, rarely 

 subacuminate, entire or rarely furnished with one or two teeth ; 

 cells rather minute, 4, 5 and 6-sided, roundish-quadrate or hex- 

 agonal, walls firm, angles thickened, no trigones. Leaves of the 

 lower portion of the stems and of all sterile branches minute, very 

 closely appressed. Bracts abruptly much larger than the leaves, 

 3, 4 pairs, not so close, appresso-imbricate, innermost shortly 

 connate, broadly ovate, below ventricose, pale, above carinate and 

 of a beautiful rosy colour, in the sterile flower almost to J, in 

 fertile only from ^ to -J- bilobed ; lobes plane, ovate, subacu- 

 minate, repand-denticulate, spinulcse or entire, laxly reticulate 

 (towards the base especially) ; cells subequilateral-hexagonal, 

 marginal cells small, quadrate, trigones very small but distinct. 

 Bracteole usually wanting, when present small, oval-lingulate, 

 adnate to the base of the perianth. Outer bracts but little smaller 

 than the innermost, less deeply bilobed, laxly complanate, subentire. 

 Perianth terminal, slightly complanate when young, smaller than 

 the bracts, ovate-tubular, at the base free or shortly adnate to the 



