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more crowded. Pcrichc\:tial leaves only slightly 

 different, lobes faintly crenate. Calyx narrow at 

 the base, cylindrical, becoming depressed, and at 

 the extremity quite flat, incurved when young, 

 mouth truncate, and minutely crenate. Capsule 

 ovate, deep brown. Elaters bispiral. — {Plate j, 



fig' 32') 



lobes 

 Peri- 



Scapania resupinata, L., Dum. 



Stem erect, rather branched, leaves un- 

 equally conduplicately two-lobed, 

 rounded-ovate, rather obtuse, toothed, 

 anth with a dentate mouth. 



Jiuigermamiia resupinata, Linn. Sp. I599> 

 Eno-. Bot. t.2437. Scapauia resupinata, Dumort. 

 Rev. Jung. p. 14; Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 

 16, 17 ; Carr. Br. Hep., t. 8, f. 26 (partly). 



On shady rocks and walls. (Fr. May, June.) 



var. p laxifolia, Lindenb. p. 53. Stem more 

 lax, leaves more remote, lobule less obtuse. 



var. 7 recurvifoiia, 

 Hook. Jung., t. xxi., f. 8. 

 Lobes and lobules of 

 the leaves recurved. — 



j^jj^^%/,ij/ Densely CiEspitose; 

 ^ii/ shoots slender, of uniform 



diameter, radiculose, 

 zonate, ochraceous, olive 

 brown or olive ; leaves closely imbricated, equal. 



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