CKSIA. 397 



rnncrmost bracts x 'M .(I'cii Lawers, (\. Davics). Ki. I*eri- 

 gouial bract witli aiitheridiuiu x G2 (C. & 1*. n. 7(5). Figures 3 

 and IG drawn by Dr. (iottsche, othex's by Dr. Carrington and 

 W, 11. P. 



4. Cesia confer ta [Llm/jr.). 



S'arcoscj/phvs C07}fertus, Liiupvicht, Jahrb. Hchles. Cios. p. :\]l] (1X80). 

 (Ij/innomitriinn confortum, Limpr. Flora n. 5 (18S1). 



Jfarsiipella covferia (Limpr.) Spruce, Rev. Bryol ii. (i. !)."i (l.SSI) ; Pears. Journ. 

 of Bot. Sept. (1802). 



Monoicous, cjospitose oi* straggling among mosses, pale 

 yellowish-green to reddish-brown in colour. Stems simple or 

 branched, prostrate, flexuose, filiform, terete, denudate at the base ; 

 branches short, ascending, about 10 cells in diameter, cortical 

 cells witli slightly firmer walls ; radiculose, rootlets fasciculate, 

 short, ascending to apex of the stem, few, more frequent below, 

 dull white or reddish-purple. Leaves closely imbricate, bifarious, 

 from a vaginate base, appressed, erect, on fertile stems gradually 

 accrescent, oval, bifid to about 1 ; sinus and segments acute; 

 texture firm, epidermis smooth, cells very minute to minute, 

 roundish-quadrate or indistinctly 5-G angled, walls thick, trigones 

 large and distinct. ? terminal, on short branches or on main 

 stem ; bracts larger than the leaves, oval or oval-rotund, the 

 innermost bracts free or sometimes united into a tube, small, 

 tender, margin irregular. Pistillidia 5-10, dispersed over the 

 calyptra. Pedicel long, thick. Capsule dark brown, almost 

 spherical. Spores yellowish-brown, granulate. Elaters o-4- 

 spiral, sometimes furcate. Andrtecia spicate, situated on the 

 main stem or on short branches, perigonial bracts ovate, a little 

 swollen at the base ; antheridia solitary, stipitate. 



Fruits Summer. 



Dimensions. — Stems from | to 1 in. lono-, diam. --Jmni., with 

 leaves '5 mm. broad, leaves '65 mm. x T) mm., segments 

 ']'25 mm., "G mm. x '45 mm., seg. '1:25 mm., '5 mm. x "4 mm,, seg. 

 •125 mm., cells '0 1 mm., -OL^nim. x -ol mm., sub-bracts "45 mm. 



