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apex flagellate, small-leaved. All the branches 

 lateral axillary. Leaves small, cauline distant, 

 rarely rather contiguous, obliquely incubous, sub- 

 quadrate, palmatifid to the middle, laciniae for the 

 most part four, rarely five or six subulate, rather 

 acuminate, incurved uncinate, three to five cells 

 broad at the base. Leaves of the branches smaller, 

 3-4-fid, the upper bifid, leaves of the branchlets 

 longer and narrower, deeply bifid. Stipules shorter 

 than the leaves, cut half way into four or five, rarely 

 six, teeth, broadly subulate, obtuse and incurved. 

 Flowers dioicous, male spicate at the apex of a 

 branch, bracts three to ten, smaller than the leaves, 

 imbricate, bilobate, concave, rarely with a basal 

 tooth, lobes ovate, acute, incurved, bracteoles 

 narrower, bilobed. Antheridia solitary, shortly 

 stipitate. (Plate 2, fig. ji.) 



Lepidozia setacea, Web. 



Stern creeping, branched, leaves every- 

 where imbricate, bipartite nearly to the base, 

 setaceous, incurved, articulate, perichaetial 

 leaves dissected, stipules none. Perianth 

 lateral, oblong, mouth open, ciliate. 



Jungermannia setacea, Web. Spic. Gott. 145; 

 Hook. Br. Jung. No. 8 ; Engl. Bot. t 2482 ; 

 Gott and Rabh. Exs. 38, 39, 114, 445, 502. 

 Lepidozia setacea, Cooke Hep. f. 120; Carr. 

 and Pears. Exs. No. 191, 192. Blepharostoma 

 setacea, Dumort. Rev. Jung. p. 18 ; Dumort. 

 Hep. Eur. 95. Jungermannia pauciflora, 



