148 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH HEPATIC/E. 



mort. Rev. Jung. p. 17 ; Cooke Hep. f. 109; 

 Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 184. 



var. ft obtusata. Leaves obtusely emargin- 

 ate, dark green; stipules multifidly divided. 



104. 



fungermannia bidentata ft obtusata, Hook. Jung, 

 figs. 30, 12, 13. 



var. y gracile, Carr. Irish Hep. t. 2, f. 6. 

 Fronds creeping, attenuate, not larger than in 

 f. bicuspidata ; leaves narrower at the base, 

 ovate, divided half way down into two slender, 

 curved segments ; stipules slender, bifid (fig. 

 104). 



var. alata, Nees. Some stems bear both 

 entire and winged perianths, so that this state 

 is not even entitled to rank as a variety. 



Plentiful in moist shady situations. (Plate 3, 

 fig- 45-} 



Growing in more or less crowded patches of 

 some inches diameter. Stems I to i inch long, 

 procumbent, flexuose, branched, the branches often 

 erect, towards the extremity simple, or with a 

 short lateral shoot. Leaves close but scarcely im- 

 bricated, in two opposite rows, plane or slightly 



