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Growiim in dense niatted tufts some inches 

 broad. Stems 2 to 3 inches lonj;-, slender, of a red- 

 dish-brown colour, erect, simple, or ir. 

 irregularly dichotomous. Leaves bi- /'/ 

 farious, erect ; adpressed, so closely im- 

 bricate as to conceal the stem, quadrate 

 but broader than long, somewhat em- K\J 

 bracing, divided from the apex to one- 

 fifth of the base into four equal 

 lanceolate, erect segments, which arc 

 keeled on their inner surface, and fur- 

 rowed on the outer ; margins recurved, 

 here and there beset with unequal strong 

 teeth, generally pointed dow^n wards. The 

 texture rigid and brittle when dry. Colour pale 

 yellowish brown. Fericha^tial leaves larger than 

 the rest, the divisions more numerous, margins 

 more recurved, and teeth larger, and more abun- 

 dant. Calyx oblong, plicate, mouth toothed, but 

 not contracted (fig. 56). 



Anthelia filum, Dumort. 



Stem erect, nearly simple ; leaves bifarious, 

 closely incumbent, palmate, two-spurred at 

 the base, segments entire, stipules none. 



Jungennannia sctifoniiis (^ alpiiia, Hook. Br. 

 Jung. t. 20, f. I, 3, 4. Jiingennanuia filiiui, 

 Dumort. Syll. Jung. p. 64. Anthelia filiiui, 

 Dumort. Rev. Jung. p. 18; Hep. Eur. [). 98. 



Amoncrst moss. 



This differs from A)itkelia sctiforinis in the 



