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leaves dissected, stipules none. Perianth 

 trnninal. ovate, mouth contracted, ciliate. 



Jiiiii^rrninjuua frirhophylla, Linn. Sp. lOoi; 

 V.ng. i^ot. t. 2252 ; Hook. I^r. Jung. No. 7; 

 Mart. Erl. p. 146, t. 4, f. 21 ; Gott. and Rabh. 



Exs. 15, 267, 



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Cooke Hep. f. 102 



Blcpharostonia tnchophylla, Dumort. Rev. Jung, 

 p. t8 ; Carr. and Pears. Exs. 118, 119. 



Ow turfy heaths, &c. 



Growing in loose matted tufts, some inches 

 broad. Stems creeping i to i^ inch long, simjilc 

 or forked, shoots with short 

 spreading branches. Leaves in 

 alternate clusters of two or three 

 to five, forming tufts, simple or 

 forked, setaceous, straight, yel- 

 lowish green, paler when dry, 

 transversely septate (fig. 69) 

 Pcricha^tial leaves, external simi- 

 lar to stem leaves, internal nearly 

 ovate, entire at the base, but 

 divided above into branched capillar}^ segments. 

 Perianth elliptical, plicate, contracted at the mouth, 

 and fringecl with short hairs. Calyptra ovate, 

 white. Capsule ovate, then splitting into four 

 lanceolate segments, longitudinall}' and transversely 

 furrowed. Elaters bispiral. 



69. 



Gf.nus 15. CEPHALOZIA, Dumort. 



Plants small and tender, stems usually 

 prostrate, branches all postical, leaves mostly 



