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vaguely branched ; leaves rather erect, 

 rounded-ovate, concave, narrower at the apex, 

 lobule turgid; stipules oval, bifid half way, 

 bracts large, bilobate; perianth pear-shaped, 

 obtusely five-angled. 



Jungermannia iilicina, Tayl. Trans. Bot. 

 Soc. Ed in. I., p. 115. Jungermannia minntis- 

 sima, Hook. Jung. t. 52, partly. Lcjennia 

 mimttissima, Spruce Ann. Nat. Hist., 1849; 

 Carr. and Pears. Exs. 196. Lejeitnia iilicina, 

 Spruce Journ. Bot., 1881, XIX., p. 34; 1887, 



p. 38. 



On branches, &c. 



Dioicous, minute, Jto | inch long, loosely branched. 

 Leaves distinct or subcontiguous, rather erect (form- 

 ing an angle of io°-30° with stem), rounded-ovate, 

 concave, narrowed at the apex and ob- 

 tuse, or abruptly acute ; lobule more or 

 less shorter, scarcely equally broad, 

 turgid, margin plane or incurved, apex 

 acutely apiculate. Stipules three times 

 shorter than the leaves, oval, bifid half 

 way, segments linear - subulate, sinus 

 rather obtuse. Bracts large, three times 

 the size of the leaves, divergent, plane, 

 28. complicatcly bilobed, somewhat toothed, 

 lobe obovate, acute, lobule shorter, semi- 

 lanceolate ; bracteoles oval-lanceolate, one-fourth 

 bifid, segments acute. Perianth oblong pear- 

 shaped, at the apex obtusely five-angled, terete, 

 but not keeled. — (Plate i.fig. 14..) 



