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Highlands, in moist situations. (Fr. Ant.) 



Growin; 



124. 



in dense tufts, i or 2 inches across, of 

 blackish appearance. Stems i or 2 to 

 3 inches long, flexible, erect, simple or 

 more frequently irregularly dichoto- 

 mous, branches simple, or with one or 

 two lateral shoots. Leaves bifarious, 

 rather distant, erect, or a little spread- 

 ing, loosely imbricate, cordate, concave, 

 margins embracing and concealing the 

 stem (fig. 124), thin and membrana- 

 ceous, dark olive, or blackish green, 

 sometimes tinged deep purple. Peri- 

 chcXtial leaves like the cauline ones. 

 Perianth oblong-ovate, lengthened at 

 the base or fusiform, slightly plicate 

 above, mouth small and indistinctly 

 toothed, terminal and axillary. 



Aplozia lupida, Dumort. 



Stem creeping, fruit-bearing, ascending, 

 leaves incumbent, rounded, entire, superior 

 closely imbricate ; perichaetial leaves ver^^ 

 broad, stipules none. Perianth terminal, 

 ovate, dentate. 



Jimgcrmannia scalaris, Web. and Mohr. 

 Crypt, p. 419, Jungcrmannia pitmila, Lind. 

 Syn. Hep. 69, t. 2. Jungcrmannia nana, 

 Nees Eur. Leb. 1317; Gott. and Rab. Exs. 

 287, 512 ; Cooke Hep. f. 63, 64. fungcr- 

 rnannia liirida, Dum. Syll. Jung. p. 50 ; Carr. 



