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the upper half, mouth contracted, and cut into 

 several sharp teeth. Capsule ovate, reddish brown. 

 Elaters bispiral. 



Diplophyllum saxicolum, Schrad. 



Stem ascending, somewhat branched, leaves 

 unequally two-lobed, entire, posterior lobe 

 rounded, anterior three times smaller, 

 acuminate. Perianth obtuse, 5-6 plicate. 



Jungermannia saxicola, Schrad. Samm. 97 ; 

 Mart. Erl. t. 5, f. 34 ; Gott. and Rab. Exs. 

 12, 302 and bis; Carr. and Pears. Exs., No. 

 234, 235, 236; Diplophyllum saxicolum, Du- 

 mort. Rev. Jung., p. 16. 



In sub-alpine regions. 



Stipules absent ; leaves deeply bifid, complicate ; 

 lobes nearly equal, broadly ovate, entire, below 

 closely imbricate, convex, rounded, apex of the 

 stem innovant, with the leaves semi-terete ; fruit 

 terminal on subdorsal innovations. Bracts two 

 pairs, imbricate, a little smaller than cauline 

 leaves, inferior pair broad, plicate, mostly trifid 

 or subquadrifid, lobes sparingly and obtusely 

 repand, dentate, superior ovate, acute, broadly 

 rounded in the middle. Perianth ovate, obtuse, 

 5-6 plicate, W4th the angles between the folds 

 rounded and obtuse, mouth laciniatc. — {Plate j, 



fig- 44-) 



