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leaves dissected, stipules none. Perianth 

 terminal, ovate, mouth contracted, ciliate. 



Jungermannia trichophylla, Linn. Sp. 1601; 

 Eng. Bot. t. 2252; Hook. Br. Jung. No. 7; 

 Mart. Erl. p. 146, t. 4, f. 21 ; Gott. and Rabh. 

 Exs. 15, 267, 313; Cooke Hep. f. 102. 

 Blepharostoma trichophylla, Dumort. Rev. Jung. 

 p. 18; Carr. and Pears. Exs. 118, 119. 



On turfy heaths, &c. 



Growing in loose matted tufts, some inches 

 broad. Stems creeping \ to i inch long, simple 

 or forked, shoots with short 

 spreading branches. Leaves in 

 alternate clusters of two or three 

 to five, forming tufts, simple or 

 forked, setaceous, straight, yel- 

 lowish green, paler when dry, 

 transversely septate (fig. 69) 

 Perichaetial leaves, external simi- 

 lar to stem leaves, internal nearly 

 ovate, entire -at the base, but 

 divided above into branched capillary segments. 

 Perianth elliptical, plicate, contracted at the mouth, 

 and fringed with short hairs. Calyptra ovate, 

 white. Capsule ovate, then splitting into four 

 lanceolate segments, longitudinally and transversely 

 furrowed. Elaters bispiral. 



GENUS 15. CEPHALOZIA, Dumort. 



Plants small and tender, stems usually 

 prostrate, branches all postical, leaves mostly 



