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tangled tufts 2-4 mm. high, of a blue green colour, 

 brownish below, stems creeping, ascending, rigid, 

 crowded, with short radicles beneath; branches 

 short and clavate. Leaves compressed, trifarious, 

 deeply bifid, some more expanded, shorter and 

 broader. Cells quadrate, rectangular, rarely 5-6 

 angled, thin walled. Cuticle distinctly granular. 

 Male involucral leaves two to four pairs, com- 

 pressed, a little concave, very broad, mostly in- 

 cised one-third of their length. Antheridia beneath 

 the archegonia at the end of the stem or innovations, 

 round, simple on very short peduncles. Female 

 involucral leaves longer, deeply incised, and dis- 

 tinctly dentate. Perianth scarcely higher than the 

 involucre, egg-shaped, deeply plicate, the mouth a 

 little contracted and finely dentate. Archegonia, 

 three to five. (Plate 2, fig. 28.) 



Anthelia setiformis, .Ehr. 



Stem erect, nearly simple, leaves bifarious, 

 closely incumbent, palmate, base two-spurred, 

 segments spinulosely toothed ; stipules mi- 

 nute, very rarely bifid ; perianth cylindrical, 

 axillary or terminal. 



Jungermannia setiformis, Ehr. Beitr. III., 

 p. 80; Hook. Br. Jung. No. 20; Mart. Erl. 

 p. 45, t. 4, f. 1 8 ; Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No. 96, 

 252 ; Cooke Hep. f. 89. Anthelia setiformis, 

 Dumort. Rev. Jung. p. 18; Carr. and Pears. 

 Exs. No. 120, 121. 



In mountain districts. 



