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flexuous, interwoven with thick radicles, spar- 

 ingly branched. Leaves distant, squarrosely patent, 

 minute, rather wedge-shaped, obscurely keeled, 

 deeply (to three-quarters) bilobed, entire, sinus 

 acute or obtuse, rectangular, lobes ovate or lanceo- 

 late, subacuminate, twice as long as broad, often 

 incurved, apiculate ; cells minute, oblong, pellucid, 

 walls thickened at the angles. Stipules variable, the 

 lower minute or obsolete, the upper half as long as 

 the leaves and lanceolate, now and then connate 

 with a neighbouring leaf, then trilobate, the highest 

 rarely bilobed, and scarcely smaller than the leaves. 

 Female branches very short, bracts trijugous, twice 

 as long as the leaves, bilobed half way, sparingly 

 spinulosely toothed, lobes ovate, acuminate. (Plate 

 2, fig. 24.} 



Cephalozia leucantha, Spruce. 



Stems prostrate, flexuous, rather branched. 

 Leaves small, very distant, oblong or sub- 

 quadrate, bifid half way, lobes unequal, subu- 

 late, parallel or connivent. Stipules none. Peri- 

 anth large, much exserted, three (rarely four) 

 angled above, mouth minute ; capsule large. 



Jungermannia catenulata, Gott. and Rabh. 

 Exs. No. 433. Cephalozia leucantha, Spruce 

 on Cephalozia, p. 68. 



On decaying trunks. (Plate 2, fig. 26.) 



Dioicous, almost always cladocarpous, growing 

 whitish, of the same size as C. divaricata. Stems 

 prostrate, males with female closely interwoven, 



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