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1868, p. 280. Marsnpella sparsifolia, Lind. 

 Not. pro Fauna, &c., Fenn. IX., 1868; 

 Pears. Journ. Bot. Aug., 1884, t. 248 ; Dum. 

 Hep. Eur. 128; Carr. and Pears. Exs. 220. 

 Nardia Funckii var. major, Nees. 



On rocks in Alpine situations. 



Paroicous, rather robust, few-leaved, cortical 

 stratum of the stem simple, leaves acutely incised, 

 lobes rather acute, margin erect, involucral bracts 

 connate to near the middle, lobes slightly inflexed, 

 very concave, those of the involucre acute ; calyptra 

 large. 



Plants rather stout, densely caespitose. Stems 

 ascending, entangled, slender, flexuose, fastigiately 

 branched, radiculose at the base, and producing 

 long stolons, few-leaved, cortical stratum simple. 

 Leaves accrescent, margin erect, inferior ones patent 

 from a somewhat contracted base, quadrate ovate, 

 subamplexicaul, acutely emarginate, lobes rather 

 acute, plane, superior ones with a broader base, sub- 

 vaginate and saccate, broadly ovate, erecto-patcnt, 

 bearing two antheridia in their axils. Involucral 

 bracts resembling the upper leaves, erect, connate 

 below the middle, lobes slightly inflexed, rather con- 

 cave. Involucre four or five fid, lobes acute. Pro- 

 fessor Lindberg thinks that Nardia adiisia and N. 

 sparsifolia should be united in one species. — {Plate 



5^ fig' ^-Z-) 



Nardia conferta, Spruce. 



Stems prostrate, simple or branched; leaves 

 closely imbricate, secund, broadly oval, acutely 



