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spreading or erect and spreading, ovate, slightly 

 keeled, cleft about one-third from the apex by an 

 acute sinus, into two equal, sharp entire segments 

 (fig. 83). Perichsetial leaves larger than the rest, 

 and more distantly placed, sometimes leaving the 

 calyx exposed. Fruit terminal. Calyx large, 

 oblong ovate, increasing in size upwards, slightly 

 plicate, mouth contracted and toothed. Calyptra 

 membranaceous, whitish. Capsule spherical, brown, 

 longitudinally and transversely furrowed. Elaters 

 bispiral. 



Hygrobiella myrioearpa, Carr. 



Branches without leaves below, cauline 

 leaves twice as small as in M. Stableri, 

 which it resembles, always bilobed half way ; 

 bracts rarely more than bijugate, quadrate, 

 closely complicate, always free ; lobes ob- 

 tuse, entire ; perianth quite distinct from the 

 involucre, emersed, compressed, acutely cari- 

 nate. 



Diplophyllum myriocarpum Carr., in Carr. 

 and Pears. Exs. No. 96. Jungermannia myrio- 

 earpa Carr., Spruce Rev. Bry., 1881, 97 ; 

 Carr. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin., Vol. XIII., 

 p. 466, t. 1 8, fig. 4. Hygrobiella myrioearpa, 

 Spruce Cephalozia, p. 75. 



Creeping among spongy peat-like soil. (Plate 2, 



fig- *?) 



Without stipules. Creeping at the base, rhizo- 



