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almost transverse, wedge-shaped or rounded 

 quadrate, bifid half way, lobes complicate or 

 divergent, triangular, acute, rarely obtuse, entire or 

 rarely with a tooth, cells minute, subquadrate. 

 Stipules none, or here and there or everywhere 

 present, lanceolate or ligulate, sometimes bifid, 

 rarely trifid. Female flowers terminal on the stem 

 and long branches. Bracts trijugous, in three rows 

 larger than leaves, more or less connate, bilobate, 

 lobes acute and denticulate. Bracteoles scarcely 

 smaller, intermixed. Perianth linear, or narrowly 

 fusiform, emersed, whitish at the apex, rarely three 

 often four, five, or six angled, mouth constricted 

 and toothed, or nearly entire. Andraecium variedly 

 placed on stem or branches, antheridia solitary. 



Cephalozia seraria, Pears. 



Minute, tawny or pallid, caespitose, stems 

 sparingly branched ; leaves distant, rather 

 squarrose, wedge-shaped, keeled, and deeply 

 bilobate ; stipules variable. Inflorescence dioi- 

 cous, female branches very short, bracts twice 

 as long as the leaves, bilobate and toothed. 



Cephalozia ceraria Pears., Carr. and Pears. 

 Exs. No. 179; Spruce Cephalozia p. 96. 

 Jungermannia Starkii, Carr. and Pears. Exs. 

 No. 33. 



At the mouth of an old copper mine. 



Dioicous, cladocarpous, minute, tawny or pallid 

 bay, densely depressedly caespitose. Stems \ inch, 



