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Genus 38. SCALIA, Gr. S)' Beim. 



Jangermania, Lyell. in Eng. Bot. t. 2555 (181 o). 

 Scalia, Gr. k Benn. Nat. Arr. Brit. PI. p. 704 (1821). 

 Mniopsis, Dum. Comm. Bot. p. 114 (1822). 

 Gymnomitrium, Corda in Opiz Beitr. i. p. 651, n. 1 (1829). 

 Haplomitrium, Nees, Nat. Eur. Leberm. i. pp. 98, 109 (18:^3). 



Stems firm, siiberect, rliizomatous, flexuose, flagelliferous, sub- 

 simple, leafy branches few, lateral. Leaves large, subtransverse, 

 tristichous, lateral leaves broadly oblong or obovate, entire or with 

 apices having- a few irregular teeth, repand ; postical leaf narrower ; 

 cells large, subquadrate or hexagonal, leptodermous. Inflorescence 

 dioicous ; $ terminal polygynous ; bracts somewhat distant from 

 the receptacle, slightly broader than the leaves, often inciso- 

 dentate. Perianth absent. Calyptra large, subcylindrical, much 

 longer than broad, leptodermous or somewhat fleshy below, the 

 base and a little above it surrounded by the sterile pistillidia. 

 Capsule highly exserted, fusiform-cylindrical, composed of one 

 layer of cells, dividing irregularly and incompletely into 4 valves. 

 Elaters slender bi- or uni-spiral, deciduous. 



Scalia Hookeri {Lz/ell), Gr. 8j- Benn. 



Jungermania Ilooheri, Lyell in Engl. Bot. t. 2555 (1813); Hook. Brit. Jung. 



t. 54(1816). 

 Scalia Eookeri, Gr. & Benn. Nat. Arr. Brit. PL p. 704 (1821). 



Dioicous, loosely csespitose, small, of a dull green colour. 

 Stems erect, slightly flexuose, simple or rarely furcate, often with 

 a young innovation, succulent ; radiculose, rootlets horizontal, 

 thick, subcarnose, simple or branched, dull white in colour. Leaves 

 distant or crowded, loosely imbricate, patent or erecto-patent, 

 sometimes a little recurved, tristichous, varying in shape and size, 

 the lower ones smaller and roundish-ovate, upper ovate-oblong or 

 lingulate, obliquely decurrent, repand, margin dentate, irregular or 

 entire ; texture somewhat thin and delicate, cells rather large to 



