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Mylia Taylori, Hook. 



Stem erect, nearly simple, leaves bifarious, 

 accumbent, rounded, concave, entire; peri- 

 chaetial leaves oblong, connate at the base ; 

 stipules awl-shaped ; perianth ovate, truncate, 

 rather two-lipped. 



Jungermannia Taylori, Hook. Br. Jung. 

 No. 57 ; Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No. 14 ; Cooke 

 Hep. f. 56, 57. Mylia Taylori, Carr. and 

 Pears. Exs. 91, 224; Carr. Br. Hep., p. 68, 

 t. 9, f. 30. Coleochila Taylori, Dumort. Hep. 

 Eur. p. 1 06. Leptoscyphus Taylori, Mitten. 

 Hook. Journ. III., 358. 



Moist rocks and boggy places. (Fr. Spring.) 

 Shoots densely caespitose, erect, innovant, leaves 

 orbicular, coriaceous, horizontally spreading and 

 reflexed from a saccate base ; 

 perianth ovate, as long again as 

 the roundish involucral bracts. 



Growing in rather large patches. 

 Stems erect, 2 to 4 or 5 inches 

 long, thread-like, flexuous, 

 simple, or sometimes innovant 

 near the extremity. Leaves 

 largest at the extremity of fertile 

 threads, everywhere close 

 and bifarious, slightly imbrica- 

 ting, alternate, horizontally 

 spreading, not unfrequently 

 erect and secund, round or suborbicular, plane or 

 slightly concave ; margins entire, sometimes a little 



