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much lonerer than the involucre, obovate from a 

 narrow base, compressed, truncate, and toothed. — 

 {Plate 3, fig, 35.) 



Scapania nimbosa, Tayl 



Stem erect, leaves ciliately dentate, two- 

 lobed, dorsal lobule oblique-ovate, exceeding 

 the breadth of the stem, ventral lobule oblong- 

 ovate, spreading. 



Scapania nimbosa, Tayl. Trans. Bot. Soc. 

 Edin. II., p. 115. (Cooke Hep. fig. 46?) 



Amongst moss, on mountains. 



Stems growing up through tufts of moss, red- 

 dish brown, 2 to 4 inches long, 

 loosely caespitose, erect, somewhat 

 branched ; leaves, except at the 

 very base, nearly of the same size, 

 the lower lobe patent, or deflexed, 

 and so the shoots have a squarrose 

 appearance ; their texture is of very 

 minute cells. The lower lobe obo- 

 vate, rather acute, spreading ; the 

 upper lobe smaller, obovate, nearly 

 erect, somewhat imbricate, adpressed 

 to the stem, the connection between 

 the upper and lower lobes very 

 short, margins ciliate. 

 90. This was taken for 5. ncniorosa at 



first ; but it differs in the taller size, the more 

 deflexed lower lobes of the leaves, the slight join- 

 ing between the lobes, and the more considerable 

 and more distant ciliae of their margins. — Taylor. 



