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Mfiiopsis, Dumort. Hep. Kur., p. 120, t. 3, 

 f. 36. 



Bot 



Scalia Hookeri, Zy<f//. 



Stems erect and seldom branched ; rather 

 long and irregularly-shaped leaves springing 

 from all sides of the stem. There is no calyx, 

 and the hood is fleshy and prominent. 



Jiingermannia Hookefi, Lyell. Eng. 

 t. 2555 ; Hook. Brit. Jung. t. 54 ; 

 Sm. Br. Fl. V., p. i, 107. Ha- 

 plomitrium Hookeri, Nees Leberm, 

 ni., 513 ; Cooke Hep. f. 14. 

 Scaliiis Hookeri, Carr. Br. Hep. 

 p. 2, t. I, f. I. 



Heaths and damp places. (Fr. 

 Winter and Spring.) 



Grows in small and scattered 

 patches of a dull green colour. 

 Creeping at the base, rooting shoots 

 divaricate. Stems erect up to i inch 

 long, simple, rarely forked, succu- 

 lent. Leaves pale green, distant, 

 loosely imbricate, near the base smaller, 

 and roundish-ovate, upper ovate- 

 oblong, or tongue-like, obtuse, repand, 

 or jagged and toothed, sometimes en- 

 tire, spreading (fig. 167) obliquely de- 

 current. Amphigastria or stipules 167. 

 smaller, but similar. Texture soft, shrinking when 

 dry. Involucral leaves resembling those of the 



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