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Lejeunia inconspicua, De Not. 



Filiform, loosely branched, leaves distant, 

 rounded-ovate, entire, convex, involucral 

 rounded-oblong, spreading; without stipules; 

 perianth axillary, plicate, pentagonal, top- 

 shaped. 



Jungennannia inconspicua, Raddi. Jung. 34, 

 t. 5, fig. 2. Jungennannia nwiutissinia, Tayl. 

 Trans. Bot. Edin., 1844. Lejeunia minutissima 

 /3, Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No. 216. Lejeunia 

 Taylori, Spruce Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. III., 

 212. Lejeunia inconspicua^ De Not in Rab. 

 Exs. No. 45. Lejeunia minutissima var. /?, sine 

 amphigastriis, Carr. Irish Crypt. 



On trunks, very minute. 



Stems hair-like, flexuous, loosely branched, hardly 

 conspicuous to the naked eye ; leaves few, vertical, 

 two-rowed, alternate, roundish, complicate beneath, 

 and ventricose, longitudinal fold nearly equal to 

 the leaves ; stipules absent ; perichcTetial leaves 

 spreading, oblong, narrowly complicate ; calyx 

 terminal, broadly obovatc, compressed, five-angled ; 

 mouth obtusely papillate ; capsule subspherical, 

 hyaline, cleft half way to the hd.sc.— {Plate i,jig. 5.) 



Lejeunia microscopica, Tayl. 



Very thin, creeping, vaguely branched ; 

 leaves remote, ovate, lanceolate, acute, ventral 



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