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pellucid, smooth, divided for one-third of their 

 length into two lobes ; inferior lobe roundish-obo- 

 vate, obtuse or apiculate, convex, strongly reflexed ; 

 lobule half the size, obliquely reniform, crossing 

 the stem, apex rounded, concave, incumbent or 

 antiflexed ; margins equally dentate ; perianth ob- 

 conic, truncate, inciso-dentate ; capsule small, oval, 

 shortly stipitate. (Plate j, fig. jj). 



Scapania Bartlingii, 



Ascending; leaves shortly conduplicate,two~ 

 lobed, concave at the base and embracing, 

 spreading at the apex, lobes equal half- 

 rounded, subrepand, entire ; perichaetial 

 leaves broader, rounded. 



Jungermannia Bartlingii, Hampe. Nees Eur. 

 Leb. II., 423. Scapania Bartlingii, Nees in 

 Syn. Hep. p. 64 ; Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No. 

 292; Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 18 ; Carr. 

 Brit. Hep. p. 83, t. ix., f. 27. 



On damp shady rocks by streams. 



Tufts depressed, scattered, of a sordid green 

 colour, frequently creeping among other mosses and 

 hepatics. Stems stout, pale brown, lower two-thirds 

 creeping, upper third ascending. Leaves loosely im- 

 bricated, alternate, with an upward and forward 

 direction, when opened out cordate, the base saccate 

 and embracing, divided for a short distance into two 

 nearly equal lobes, apiculate or obtuse. The base of 

 the leaf generally vaginate and erect, the upper por- 



