HANDHOOK or I'.RITISH IIEPATIC/E. 



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tial leaves large, entirely sheathing with their base 

 the lower part of the calyx, which latter is rather 

 attenuated at the base, longitudinally plicate at the 



99. 100- 



apex, mouth contracted and toothed. Capsule red- 

 dish brown. Elaters bispiral (figs. 98, 99, 100).— 



{^Plate III, fig. 4-0) 



Hooker's variety, procuinbens, has a creeping 



habit, and grows on clay soil. 



Diplophyllum taxifolium, WahL, Dum. 



Stem nearly erect, somewhat branched ; 

 leaves bifarious, unequally two-lobed, con- 

 duplicate, rather acute, toothed, without ribs, 

 vittate ; perianth terminal, obovate. 



Jungermannia taxifolia, Wahl. Fl. Lapp. 

 t. 25, fig. A-C. /. albicans v. taxifolia, G. L. 

 and N. Syn. Hep. 76. Diplophyllum taxifolinm, 



