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Rkcardui palinata, Carr. and Pears. Exs. 

 No. 204. 



var. polyblasta^ Nees. 



On dead trees. 



var. 7 (?) conferta, Nees. 



On dead trees. 



Dioicous, small, opaque. Fronds vvkh a short 

 and narrow stipe, divided into narrow linear 

 palmate segments, very often gradually narrowed 

 towards the apex, and rather acute, scarcely 

 emarginate, biconvex, gonidia produced on both 

 surfaces, but almost always on the superior parts. 

 Cells small, rounded, perichsetial bracts numerous, 

 Calyptra small and densely warted. Andrsecium 

 WntdiY.— {Plate 7, fig- gi.) 



Aneupa latifrons, Lindl?. 



Autoicious, rarely paroicous, large, pellucid. 

 Frond long and broad, divided into broad 

 staghorn-like lobes, more or less oblong, 

 wedge-shaped, very obtuse and emarginate, 

 plano-convex. Cells large, oblong-rhomboid ; 

 perichaetial bracts few; calyptra large and less 

 verrucose. Andraecium narrow, oblong, almost 

 always affixed to the side of the perichaetium. 



Ancura pabnata major, Nees Hep. Eur. IIJ., 

 459. Riccardia palmata, Carr. in Seem. Journ. 

 III., 302; Hook. Brit. Jung. t. 45, fig. 4, 7 

 and 12. Riccardia latifrons, Lind. Not. Soc. 



