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Mylia Taylori, Hook. 



Stem erect, nearly simple, leaves bifarious, 

 accumbent, rounded, concave, entire; peri- 

 chaetial leaves oblong, connate at the base ; 

 stipules awl-shaped ; perianth ovate, truncate, 

 rather two-lipped. 



Jiingcnnannia Taylori, Hook. Br. Jung. 

 No. 57 ; Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No. 14 ; Cooke 

 Hep. f. 56, 57. Mylia Taylori, Carr. and 

 Pears. Exs. 91, 224; Carr. Br. Hep., p. 68, 

 t. 9, f. 30. Colcochila Taylori, Dumort. Hep. 

 Eur. p. 106. Lcptoscyphiis Taylori, Mitten. 

 Hook. Journ. HI., 358. 



Moist rocks and boggy places. (Fr. Spring.) 



Shoots densely caespitose, erect, innovant, leaves 

 orbicular, coriaceous, horizontally spreading and 

 reflexed from a saccate base ; 

 perianth ovate, as long again as 

 the roundish involucral bracts. 



Growing in rather large patches. 

 Stems erect, 2 to 4 or 5 inches 

 long, thread-like, flexuous, 

 simple, or sometimes innovant 

 near the extremity. Leaves 

 ku'gcst at the ext.*'cmity of fertile 

 threads, everywhere close 

 and bifarious, slightly imbrica- 

 ting, alternate, horizontally 

 140. 141. '^' ■,. , r ^/ 



sprcadmg, not unircc|ucntly 



erect and sccund, round or suborbicuku', plane or 

 slightly concave ; margins entire, sometimes a little 



