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roundish, entire or obtusely notched. Calyx 

 obcordate, depressed, beside the 

 two angles from the sides a third 

 )rojects from the under surface 

 . 34), mouth at first a central 

 tubular apiculus, at length divided 

 into four acute teeth. Capsule 

 spherical, delicate, whitish, cleft to 

 the thickened apex of the peduncle. 

 Elaters bispiral, persistent. (Plate 



Lejeunia calyptrifolia, Hook., Dum. 



Leaves bladder-like, calyptriform, ovate, 

 cuspidate ; basilar auricle circumvolute ; peri- 

 chaetial quadrate, obtusely emarginate ; peri- 

 anth five-keeled, depressed at the apex. 



Lejeunia calyptrifolia, Hook. Br. Jung. t. 

 43 ; Eng. Bot t. 2, 538 ; Cooke Hep. fig. 

 156 ; Carr. and Pears. Exs. 197. Coluro- 

 Lejeunia calyptrifolia, Spruce Hep. Amaz. 

 p. 304. 



On furze and rocks. 



Grows in little pale green tufts, scarcely inch 

 broad. Stems procumbent, one to two lines long, 

 creeping, thread-like, once or twice divided, with 

 spreading branches, of a pale green. Leaves rather 

 close, bifarious, horizontal, spreading or erect, 

 largest at the base, gradually lessening to the apex, 

 unequally two-lobed, having the superior the 



