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tance into two nearly equal subdentate lobes (fig. 

 88) ; inferior lobe roundish ovate from a contracted, 

 reflexed base, shortly pointed, apiculate ; lobule 

 obliquely ovate, crossing the stem, spreading ; 

 perianth half-immersed, obovate- oblong, truncate, 

 inciso-denticulate ; capsule ovate. Carr. 



" The papillose leaves separate .S". aquiloba not 

 only from 6". resupinata, with which it was generally 

 confounded, but from all other Scapania? 



Scapania subalpina, N., Dum. 



Stem erect, forked, leaves two-lobed to 

 the middle, denticulate, lobes nearly equal, 

 rounded, toothed, narrowly incumbent. 



Jungermannia subalpina, Nees ; Lind. Sp. 

 Hep. 55. Scapania subalpina, Dumort. Rev. 

 Jung. 14; Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No. 465; 

 Carr. and Pears. Exs. 226, 227; Cooke Hep. 

 f. 41. 



In sub-alpine woods. 



var. undulifolia, Syn. Hep. p. 65. Stem 

 more slender, radiculose be- 

 neath, leaves broader, undu- 

 late, lobes spreading. 



On rocks. 



Leaves denticulate towards 

 the outside, equally distant, 

 soft, imbricate, bifid nearly to 

 the middle, lobes rounded, 

 obtuse, nearly equal, closely 

 incumbent (fig. 89). Perianth 



