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one-third by a rather obtuse sinus, segments acute, 

 occasionally a little spreading, rigid and brittle 

 when dry. Perichaetial leaves numerous, imbricate, 

 subquadrate, the exterior divided by an obtuse sinus 

 into two equal acute segments, the interior cut into 

 three to five unequal segments, paler. Calyx oblong, 

 plicate, mouth not contracted, obtusely toothed. 

 Calyptra ovate, delicate and pellucid. Capsule 

 deep red brown, longitudinally and transversely 

 furrowed. Elaters bispiral. 



var. ft Starkii, Spruce Ceph. p. 64. Stipules 

 present, lobes of the leaves more ovate, 

 or ovate lanceolate, subacuminate, acute 

 or obtuse. 



Jungermannia Starkii, Funck. G. L. and N. 

 Syn. p. 134. Jungermannia Grimsulana, Jack. 

 Gott. and Rab. Exs. 



sub-var. stellulifera, Tayl. MSS. Leaves 

 recurved, spreading, involucral more 

 crowded, stellately squarrose. 

 Jungermannia Starkii var. procerior, G. L. 

 and N. Syn. Hep. p. 134. Jungermannia 

 stellulifera, Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 32. 



Dioicous, small, colour variable, greenish olive, 

 sometimes tinged with rose, rarely whitish or 

 almost black, densely caespitose, or loosely creep- 

 ing amongst mosses, prostrate or nearly erect ; stem 

 stout, sparingly branched, with radicles but without 

 flagella. Leaves small, scarce, longer than the 

 diameter of the stem, distant on the sterile, 

 subimbricate on the fertile, rather succubous or 



