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nate, distichous; leaves bifarious, conduplicate, 

 two-lobed, ciliate, auricle bifid ; stipules 

 lobate; perianth lateral, obovate, mouth plicate, 

 contracted, torn and toothed. 



Lichenastrum scorpioides, Dill. Hist. Muse. 

 p. 481, t. 69, f. 3. Jungermannia ciliaris^ 

 Linn. Sp. 1601 ; Eng. Bot. t. 2241 ; Hook. 

 Br. Jung. No. 65. Ptilidium cihare, Nees 

 Eur. Leb. p. 117; Gott. and Rab. Exs. 9, 

 197; Carr. and Pears. Exs. I27A, 1276; 

 Cooke Hep. fig. 132, 135. Blepharozia ciliaris, 

 Dum. Rev. Jung. p. 16. 



On heaths, &c. 



Growing in densely matted purplish - brown 

 patches. Stems I to 2 or 3 inches long, procum- 

 bent, or rarely sub- 

 erect, flexuous, thread- 

 like, with rather dis- 

 tant alternate pinnae, 

 (fig. 48), which are 

 spreading and usually 

 simple, sometimes 

 branched. Leaves 

 'more or less densely 

 crowded, bifarious, 

 imbricating over the 

 upper surface of the 

 stem (fig. 49), not 

 sensibly diminishing m size. They are roundish 

 or subquadrate, distinctly divided into two unequal 

 lobes, upper one the largest, convex, and cleft for 

 about half its length into two rather acute seg- 







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