ANEURA. 455 



or cylindrical, truncate, white, slightly verrucose, near the base 

 7 or 8 cells thick, above 3 or 4. Pedicel hyaline, somewhat 

 thick. Capsule oval or elliptical, brown, dividing to the bast- 

 into 4 valves, which are elliptical, when dry convolute, reflexed, 

 composed of two layers of cells, inner small. Elaters short, some- 

 what obtuse, unispiral, spiral threads brown. Spores globose, 

 greenish-brown. Androecia narrowly oblong, base narrow and 

 shortly stipitate, base and postical side slightly radiculose; anthe- 

 ridia biseriate, globose, hyaline, very shortly stipitate. 



Fruits in Spring. 



Dimensions. — Fronds \ to h inch long, branches 4- mm. io 

 8* mm. long, stem 4* mm. broad x 2* mm. thick, branches of 

 stem 4* mm. broad x 1* mm. thick; calyptra 2-3' mm. long x 

 •75-1* mm. thick ; pedicel 4--7* mm. long; capsule '0 mm. x '4 

 mm.; valve '9 mm. x "3 mm.; spores •015-'0175 mm. ; elaters 

 •225 mm. x •0175 mm. 



Hab. — On rotting trees, damp turf or in wet places. Rare. 



9. Cotteril Ciough, Cheshire, IF. Wihou. 10. Goathland, 

 M.B. Slater. 16. Moidart, West Inverness, ascending to 1400 it., 

 S. M. Macvicar. 



I. Killarney, Dr. Carr'uifjton and others. 



Found on the Continent and in North America. 



Obs. — A species previously confounded either with A. niuUijida 

 or A. jjahiKita until the late Prof. Lindberg recognised it as 

 distinct from both. It is abundantly distinct from what was 

 considered a variety of A. muJtijida [A. avibro.sioiclcs) and from 

 A. palmed a ; from typical A. mult if da it is distinguished by its 

 relatively thicker and rounder stems, with more irregular and 

 broader branches, and the more tuberculate calyptra. 



Description of Plate CCII. — Fig. 1. Plant natural size 

 (Hooker). 2. Frond magnified (ditto). 3. Portion of frond 

 magnified (ditto). 4. Frond x 24 (Cr. k P. 493). 5. Cross- 

 section of stem X 85 (ditto). 6. Cross-section of branch x 85 

 (ditto). 7. Calyptra x IG (Nr. Goathland, M. B. Slater). 

 8. Capsule x 24 (ditto). 



