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HANDBOt)K OF BRITISH HEPATIC^.. 



roundisli, entire or obtusely notched. Calyx 

 obcordate, depressed, beside the 

 two angles from the sides a third 

 projects from the under surface 

 (fig. 3^4), mouth at first a central 

 tubular apiculus, at length divided 

 into four acute teeth. Capsule 

 spherical, delicate, whitish, cleft to 

 the thickened apex of the peduncle. 

 Elaters bispiral, persistent. — (Plate 



I. fig' 13') 



Lejeunia calyptrifolia, Hook., Dum. 



Leaves bladder-like, calyptriform, ovate, 

 cuspidate ; basilar auricle circumvolute ; peri- 

 chaetial quadrate, obtusely emarginate ; peri- 

 anth five-keeled, depressed at the apex. 



Lejeunia calyptrifolia, Hook. Br. Jung. t. 

 43; Eng. Bot. t. 2, 538; Cooke Hep. fig. 

 156 ; Carr. and Pears. Exs. 197. Coluro- 

 Lcjeunia calyptrifolia^ Spruce Hep. Amaz. 

 p. 304. 



On furze and rocks. 



Grows in little pale green tufts, scarceh' \ inch 

 broad. Stems procumbent, one to two lines long, 

 creeping, thread-like, once or twice divided, with 

 spreading branches, of a pale green. Leaves rather 

 close, bifarious, horizontal, spreading or erect, 

 largest at the base, gradually lessening to the apex, 

 unequally two-lobed, having the superior the 



