HAND1500K OF HKITISH HEPATIC/E. 



9' 



Dicks. Crypt. II., 15, t. 5, f. 9. Jiingcnuaiin'm 

 iuultijlorn, Huds. Fl. Ang., p. 510. 



In bogs, &c. (Fr. Autumn.) 



var. ft scrfularioidcs, Nees. Elongated, re- 

 motely and simply pinnate, pallid, leaves 

 distant. 



Amongst sphagnum. 



var. y ScJiitltzii. Caespitose, leaves crowded, 

 imbricate. Lcpidozia setacea v. ScJiiiltzii, 

 Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 193. 



Sometimes in dense tufts, but frequently scat- 

 tered. Stems creeping, from ^ to 2 inches or 

 more, irregularly forked, with irregu- 

 lar pinnate branches, which are short 

 and spreading. Leaves generally in 

 pairs, sometimes three together, on 

 every side of the branch (fig. 6^), 

 minute, setaceous, spreading, in- 

 curved, transversely septate ; gener- 

 ally of a pale yellowish green, some- 

 times brownish. Perigonial leaves 

 thickly clustered in a spha^rical 

 manner, the exterior simple, the 

 interior rising from a broad base, 

 divided above into a number of 

 narrow lacinia^. Perichajtial leaves 

 closely adpressed, oblong -ovate, 

 divided nearly to the base into narrow laciniiu. 

 Perianth small, cylindrical, pellucid, mouth cilialc ; 

 capsule ovate, furrowed. Elaters bispiral. 



