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Male catkins on postical branches. Antheridia 

 solitary. — {Plate y, Jig. 6i.) 



Cephalozia heterostipa, Spmce. 



Stems stout, radicellose, bifurcate, branches 

 postical and mostly flagelliform, leaves dis- 

 tant below, crowded above, oblong, acutely 

 bilobate, stipules small. Involucral bracts 

 loosely imbricate, 3-4 lobed, mixed with 

 smaller bracteoles. Perianth obscurely and 

 obtusely trigonous above, mouth rather wide, 

 six-lobed, lobes dentate. 



Cephalozia lieterostipa, Spruce Cephalozia p. 

 55. Jiingennannia inflata, Carr. in Gott. and 

 Rabh. Exs. No. 172. Sarcoscyphus sphacelatus^ 

 Hepp. in Gott. and Rab. Exs. 137. 



On wet rocks in mountains. 



Dioicous, depressedly ca^spitose, green turning 

 reddish or bay, or sometimes orange, fragile. 

 Stems 5^ to I inch, intricate, stout, flexuous, radi- 

 cellose throughout their length, simple, or dichoto- 

 mous. Leaves diagonally inserted, lower distant, 

 spreading, oblong, or cuneate-oblong, rather acutely 

 bilobed for one-third, lobes obtuse or rounded, 

 upper leaves approximate and more or less imbri- 

 cate, chiefly about the female flowers and forks 

 of the stem deeper coloured, broader, cuneate, 

 bilobed one-half, or sometimes 3-4 lobed, 

 obtusely toothed ; cells 4-6 angled. Stipules 

 small or minute, now and then obsolete, coloured, 

 linear or subulate, entire, rarely bifid, segments 



