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spreading or erect and spreading, ov^ate, slightl}^ 

 keeled, cleft about one-third from the apex by an 

 acute sinus, into two equal, sharp entire segments 

 (fig. 83). Perichcetial leaves larger than the rest, 

 and more distantly placed, sometimes leaving the 

 calyx exposed. Fruit terminal. Calyx large, 

 oblong ovate, increasing in size upwards, slightly 

 plicate, mouth contracted and toothed. Calyptra 

 membranaceous, wdiitish. Capsule spherical, browni, 

 longitudinally and transversely furro\ved. Elaters 

 bispiral. 



HygTobiella myriocarpa, Carr. 



Branches without leaves below, cauline 

 leaves twice as small as in M. Stahleri^ 

 which it resembles, always bilobed half wa}^ ; 

 bracts rarely more than bijugate, quadrate, 

 closely complicate^ always free ; lobes ob- 

 tuse, entire ; perianth quite distinct from the 

 involucre, emersed, compressed, acutely cari- 

 nate. 



DiplopJiyllum myriocarpum Carr., in Carr. 

 and Pears. Exs. No. 96. Juiigermamna myrio- 

 carpa Carr., Spruce Rev. Bry., 1881, 97 ; 

 Carr. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., V^ol. XIII., 

 p. 466, t. 18, fig. 4. Hygrobiella myriocarpa, 

 Spruce Cephalozia, p. 75. 



Creeping among spongy peat-like soil. — {P/ate 2, 



fig' 29.) 



Without stipules. Creeping at the base, rhizo- 



