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and irregularly toothed. Yellow green approaching 

 to olive, lower leaves inclining to dirty brown. 

 Perichaetial leaves resembling the cauline, erect, 

 and embracing the lower part of the calyx. Calyx 

 ovate, longitudinally plicate, mouth a little con- 

 tracted, and toothed. Capsule ovate, longitudi- 

 nally and transversely furrowed, pale bright red. 

 Elaters bispiral. 



Diplophyllum minutum, Dicks., Dum. 



Stem erect, dichotomous ; leaves bifarious, 

 nearly equally two-lobed, conduplicate ; lobes 

 entire, acute ; perianth terminal, subsphaerical. 



Jungermannia minuta, Dicks. PI. Crypt. II., 

 p. 13; Hook. Br. Jung. t. 44; Eng. Bot. 

 t. 2231 ; Gott. and Rabh. Exs. 36, 270, 290, 

 429, 439, 464. Cooke Hep. fig. 83. Diplo- 

 phyllum minutum, Dum. Rev. Jung. p. 16; 

 Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 94, 95. 



Amongst mosses. (Fr. Spring and Summer.) 



In small loose patches, of a brownish green 

 colour. Stems nearly erect, 

 thread-like, flexuous, | to i inch 

 long. Simple, or once or twice 

 dichotomous, with long undivided 

 branches, with occasional innova- 

 tions, brownish, brittle when dry. 

 Leaves rather distant, more so at 

 the base, bifarious, horizontal, 

 subquadrate, the upper ones di- 102. 



vided into two equal rather acute Lower leaves - 

 lobes, becoming more unequal and acute as they 



