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Lond. Journ. Bot. V., 278. Cephalozia reclusa, 

 Dumort. Hep. Eur. p. 92. 



On rotten trunks and sand rocks. 



Tufts shallow, extensive, olive brown; stems 

 rigid, terete, flexuose, catenulate ; leaves scarcely 

 broader than the stem, roundish quad- 

 rate, upper ones erect, lower semi- 

 vertical, secund, all concave, adpres- 

 sed (fig. 70), divided about half way 

 by a rather obtuse sinus, the seg- 

 ments acute. Fruit terminal, on short 

 branches, perichaetial leaves 1-2-3- 

 fid, adpressed, entire. Perianth lan- 

 ceolate, trigonous, apex minutely 

 toothed ; capsule elliptical, brown. 



As to the identity of Jungermannia 

 redusa (Tayl.) and Cephalozia catenu- 

 lata (Hiib.), Dr. Carrington and Dr. 

 Spruce appear to have entertained no 

 doubt, see notes by the former, on 

 " Irish Cryptogams," in which appears 

 Spruce's decision on the subject. 



var. y pallida, Spr. Pale green 

 or yellowish, branched, with subfastigiate 

 branches, leaves subdecurrent, split one-third to 

 one-half, segments obtuse, cells a little larger, 

 bracts quite entire. Spruce Cephalozia, p. 33. 



Cephalozia multiflora, Spruce. 

 Bright or pale green ; stems branched, 

 rather compressed, plane above, convex 

 below ; leaves small, rhomboid, rounded, bifid 



