112 MOSSES AND LIVERWORTS 



some of these leaves are drawn on a large scale. 

 Plate VIII. fig. 7, the Wood Liverwort (Scapania 

 nemorosa), is, as its name implies, an inhabitant 

 of woods and similar places, and is hy no means 

 uncommon; its leaves also are bi-lobed, and 

 their margins are fringed with fine hair-like 

 teeth. Pig. 8, the Maidenhair Liverwort (Kantia 

 trichomanis) , is a common little plant, which 

 grows on the bare earth, in damp, shady places, 

 often in company with mosses ; its leaves are 

 somewhat egg-shaped, the ends, though usually 

 rounded, being occasionally slightly notched. 

 The under-leaves are large and noticeable, and 

 are much rounder in outline than the leaves, and 

 with a much deeper notch at the end, giving 

 them a distinctly two-toothed appearance. A 

 small piece of the stem, with some of the ordinary 

 leaves and also the under-leaves, is delineated, 

 on a larger scale, at Plate X. fig. 32a. The leaves 

 themselves are a delicate pale green in colour, 

 and, the cells being somewhat large, the whole 

 plant has that peculiarly filmy appearance to 

 which reference has already so often been made. 

 The Little-lobed Liverwort (Lejeunea serpyllifolia, 

 fig. 9), doubtless so called from the minute size 

 of the lower lobe of the leaf, is a beautiful little 

 plant, which forms a very attractive object for 

 a microscopic slide, having, when seen against a 

 black background, a particularly bright appear- 

 ance. It haunts rocks, banks, tree stumps, etc., 



