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plane, cleft one-third of their length into two sharp 

 and equal segments, sinus rather acute 

 (fig. 32). Calyx widely obovate, cylin- 

 drical at the base, gradually enlarging 

 upwards, furnished with five longitudi- 

 nal angles, mouth small, protruding into 

 321 a short tube. Capsule spherical, white, 



transparent, split half down in four valves. Elaters 



bispiral. 



Lejeunia diversiloba, Sprue*. 



Shoots irregularly branched, branches 

 divaricate, leaves incubous, vertical, large lobe 

 oval, obtuse, entire, lobule variable in form, 

 nearly equal, half the size, or obsolete, sub- 

 quadrate, notched at the outer angle ; stipules 

 bifid, segments narrow, acute, dioicous. 



Lejeunia cucullata 8 stricta, N. L. and G. 

 Syn. p. 390. Lejeunia minutissima p major, 

 Carr. Irish Crypt., 1863. Lejeunia diversiloba, 

 Spruce Journ. Bot., July, 1876. Carr. and 

 Pears. Exs. No. 281; Journ. Bot., Feb., 1887, 

 p. 38. Carr. Trans. Bot. Ed. XIII., p. 468, 

 tab. 17, fig. i. 



Growing on prostrate mosses and hepatics. 



Epiphytic on Frullania, &c. Shoots filiform, 

 rigid, irregularly branched; branches divaricate; 

 leaves incubous, approximate, vertical ; large lobe 

 oval, or ovate, obtuse, slightly concave, pellucid, 



