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2 to 3 inches long. Leaves in two rows, alternate, 

 close together and overlapping, erect or spreading, 

 rarely horizontal, orbicular, concave on the upper 

 side, colour yellow brown or 

 pale green (figs. 78, 79). 

 Stipules on the gemmiferous 

 shoots, oblong, or strap-shaped, 

 obtuse, entire, near the ex- 

 , tremityof the shoots emarginate. 

 Terichaetial leaves, uppermost, 

 the largest, oblong ovate, cut 

 7 8 - 79- into five or six toothed segments, 



the receding ones smaller and less divided, at 

 length nearly entire, and rounded. Calyx oblong, 

 attenuated each way, semi-pellucid, slightly plicate, 

 mouth contracted and a little toothed. Gemmae 

 abundant in October and November. 



Cephalozia denudata, Nets. 



Stem procumbent, branched, flagelliferous 

 branches ascending ; leaves subvertical, con- 

 nivent above, orbiculate, entire, decurrent 

 about the apex ; stipules numerous. 



Jungermannia denudata Nees. in Mart. Erl. 

 p. xiv. Jungermannia scalaris ft denudata, Mart. 

 Erl. t. 6, f. 58 b. Odontochisma denudata, 

 Dumort. Rev. Jung. p. 19; Carr. and Pears. 

 Exs. No. 69, 182, 183. Jungermannia 

 sphagni, Hook. Br. Jung. Supp. t. 2. Cepha- 

 lozia sphagni, Spruce Hep. Amaz. p. 402. 



On trunks. 



