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smaller, hexagonal (fig. 66} ; whereas in A. rcptans 

 the ramification 

 is more lax, 

 leaves less im- 

 bricated, nearly 

 horizontal, 

 ovate quadrate 

 and tridentate, 

 and the cells 

 are very con- 

 spicuous, roundish, with thick walls. — Carrington. 



Lepidozia Pearsoni, Spruce. 



Dioicous. Stems creeping, simple then 

 loosely pinnate, branches short, axillary, leaves 

 small, subquadrate, palmatifid, lacinias four to 

 six, rather distant, stipules with four to five 

 teeth, which are subulate and incurved. 

 Male' flowers apical on a branch, bracts three 

 to ten, smaller than the leaves. 



Lepidozia nptans, Carr. and Pears. Exs. 

 No. 37. Lepidozia Pearsoni, Spruce Journ. 

 Bot., 1881, XIX., p. 34; ^arr. and Pear.. 

 Exs. No. 190. 



Loosely creeping amongst other hepatics. 



Dioicous. Creeping, pallid green, then ta\vn\ , 

 stems 2 to 3 inches, subterete, simple or furcate, 

 then loosely pinnate ; branches short, or ofunecjual 

 length, simi)le, very rarely branched, some with the 



