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Genus 13. LEPIDOZIA, Dumort. 



Involucre many-leaved ; leaves everywhere 

 imbricate, scale-like, undivided, apex toothed ; 

 perianth erect, sessile, terete, longer than the 

 calyptra, trisulcate, elongated, hyaline, seg- 

 ments dentate at the apex ; capsule four- 

 valved, coriaceous, naked ; elaters double, 

 naked, deciduous. — Dumort. Rev. Jung. 19 

 (1835). Hep. Eur. 109, /. 3,/ 28. 



Plants stipulate, flagelliferous, leaves incurrent, 

 divided. 



Lepidozia reptans, Linn. 



Stem creeping, branched, flagelliferous ; 

 leaves subquadrate, incurved, apex acutely 

 four-toothed ; stipules broadly quadrate, 2-4- 

 fid, perichaetial leaves ovate, unequally 

 four-toothed. 



Jiingermannia reptans^ Linn. Sp. i599- 

 Eng. Bot. t. 608 ; Hook. Br. Jung. No. 75. 

 Lepidozia reptans^ Dum. Rev. Jung. p. 19. 

 Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 268 ; Gott. and 

 Rab. Exs. 19, 282, 479; Cooke Hep. f. 121. 



In woods, on banks, iind shady places. (Fr. Spr. 

 and Sum.) 



Covering the soil in dense tufts, or straggling 



