408 HEFA TWxE. 



sub-entire, segmiuts acute, margin scariose, irregularly crenulate- 

 dentate to the base ; texture firm, marginal cells delicate, hyaline, 

 narrow, the next inner row suddenly tliickened and coloured, 

 small to smallish, roundish-quadrate ; walls thick, angles 

 thickened. No stipules. Fertile stems short ; bracts about 3 

 pairs, larger than the leaves, innermost bracts smaller than the 

 outer, bifid or rarely trifid, fringed with long teeth to the base, 

 free from the outer bracts. Cal3q3tra oval, extremely delicate ; 

 pistillidia dispersed over it. Capsule spherical, pale brown. 

 Spores small ; elaters somewhat short, brown, bispiral. Androecia 

 terminal on short branches ; perigonial bracts not so closely 

 imbricate as the leaves, slightly secund, broader than the stem 

 leaves ; antheridia oval, stipitate. 

 Fruits Mav and June. 



*25 mm. x '2 mm., seg. '03 mm. ; cells '02 mm., ^02 mm. x 

 •025 mm., "025 mm. ; marginal cells ^04 mm. x ^02 mm., 

 •03 mm. X '015 mm. ; innermost bracts ^25 mm. x "25 mm., seg. 

 "05 mm., "3 mm. x '275 mm., seg. '075 mm. ; pistillidia -15 mm. x 

 •05 mm. ; perigonial bracts ^5 m.m. x ^45 mm., seg. '1 mm., 

 •35 mm. x "4 mm., seg. "075 mm. ; antheridia •IS mm. x •! mm. 



Hab. — Growing in intricately entangled round cushions or in 

 patches on exposed rucks or stones in alpine or subalpine localities, 

 and also at a lower elevation than cither Cviila conciuuala or Ce^ia 

 obtiiHci. Not unfrequent. 



1. Dartmoor, Devon, G. E. Bavies. 7. Cader Idris, Snowdon 

 and other Welsh mountains, W. Wlhon; E. M. Holmes ; IF. H. P. 

 12. Mardale, Westmorland, G. Stabler; Borrowdale, Cumberland, 

 IF. II. P.; frequent in the Lake District, G. Stabler. 13. Fre- 

 quent on the hills. New Galloway, ./. McAmlrew. ] 6. Glen Finnan, 

 Dr. Carriufjton ; frequent on rocks and boulders on the hills, 

 rarely below 1200 ft. ; noted from 700-2500 ft., and in one 

 locality at sea-level, Moidart, West Inverness, S. M. Macvicar. 



I. Frequent on the higher mountains, and in some few 



