HANDI'.OOK ()!• I'.KHISII IIRPATIC/E. 



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l.ond. |(Mirn. P)()t. V., 27S. C^-phahrJa rrrhisa, 

 I )iiiii(>i"t. I lop. Vaw. p. 92. 

 On rotten trunks and sand rocks. 



Tufts shallow, extensive, olive brown ; stems 

 rigid, terete, flexuosc, catenulate ; leaves scarcely 

 l:)roader than the stem, roundish quad- 

 rate, upper ones erect, lower semi- 

 vertical, secund, all concave, adpres- 

 sed (fig. 70), divided about half way 

 b\' a rather obtuse sinus, the seg- 

 ments acute. Fruit terminal, on short 

 branches, perichajtial leaves 1-2-3- 

 fid, adpressed, entire. Perianth lan- 

 ceolate, trigonous, apex minutely 

 toothed ; capsule elliptical, brown. 



As to the identit}' o{ Jiiugcnuannin 

 rcclusa (Tayl.) and Ccphalozia catcuu- 

 lata (Hub.), Dr. Carrington and Dr. 

 Spruce appear to hav^e entertained no 

 doubt, see notes by the former, on 

 '* Irish Cryptogams," in which appears 

 Spruce's decision on the subject. 



var. 7 pallida, Spr. Pale green 

 or 3'ellowish, branched, with siibfastigiate 

 branches, leaves subdecurrent, split one-third to 

 one-half, segments obtuse, cells a little larger, 

 bracts quite entire. — Spruce Ccphalozia, p. 33. 



70. 



Cephalozia multiflora, Spruce. 



Bright or pale green ; stems branched, 

 rather compressed, plane above, convex 

 below; leaves small, rhomboid, rounded, bifid 



