( VOL. V, 1915). FRANZ STEPUAM. SPECIES IIEPATICAIUM Leptocoleu. 



iientibus, plica antica subnuila. Folia floralia perianthio tequiloiiga, 

 lanceolala, divergenti-patula, subacuta, lobulus anguste lanceolatus, 

 duplo brevior, parum solutus, acutus suj) apice spinula obtusa arrnatus. 

 Androecia sessiiia, bracteis 4-8 jugis. 



Hab. Ciiha, Ve/iezuela, Mexico, lirasilia orienfalis. 



4. Leptocolea Jooriana (Aust.) Evans. Mem. Torr. Kot. (II. 

 1902, p. 173. 



Lejeunea .looriana. Aust. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. 1875, p. 2(J. 



Autoica pusilla, pallida vel flavo-virens, in cortice caespitans. Cauli.s 

 ad 6 mm. longus, irregulariter ramosus. Folia caulina paruni imbricata, 

 recte patula concava apiceque decurva, in plano ovato-oblonga (1 mni. 

 longa, inferne 0,58 ram. lata) superne longe attenuata, apice obtusa, 

 brevi basi inserta, basi antica truncato-rotundata, syinmetrica, margi- 

 nibus cellulose-crenulatis. Celhil.T marginales 14 |jl, medie 12x18 [j., 

 basales 18X27 [j., apicates tonyw hyalina?, radialiter insertie, pauca?, 

 rarius cristam latam formantes. Lotmlus majusculus, folio triplo 

 brevior, obovato-obconicus, parum longior quam latus, carina oblique 

 adscendens, arcuata, stricte in folium excurrens, apice quam basis 

 multo latiore, oblique truncato, bidentato, dentibus imequalibus, 

 mediano longiore, slytus minimus, bicellularis. Perianthia uno latere 

 innovata, obovata (0,83 mm. longa, medioO,58 mm. lata) inflata, apice 

 rotundata, quinqueplicata, plicis vix crenulatis, posticis in unamlatam 

 confluentibus longeque decurrentibus, plica antica obsoleta, roslro 

 brevissimo. Folia floralia lanceolata, acuta perianthium longe superan- 

 tia, lobulus aequilatus sed duplo brevior, carina saccata, apice oblique 

 truncato, angulo apiculato. Antkeridia solitaria vel geminata, in basi 

 perianthii, in fundo folii floralis. 



Hab. America septentrionalis. Florida. 



5. Leptocolea marginata (L, et L.) Evans, Torr. Bot. Cl. 1911, 

 p. 262. 



Dioica, mediocris pallida, in foliis repens. (aiuUs ad 2 cin. longus, 

 sparsim longeque ramosus. Folia caulina imbricata, oblique vel subrecte 

 patula, pubplana, late obovata, subsymmetrica (1,5 mm. longa, 1 mm. 

 lata) brevissima basi inserla, basi antica truncata, apice obtusa vel 

 rotundata, integerrima. Cettulse apicales 9X27 p., hyalinae, crenatim 

 prominula* limbum boiie definitum formantes, subapicales 9X9 [j., 

 mediae 27x27 [x, basales 18X54 [x, trigonis niillis. Lotmtus inagnus, 

 folio triplo vel subduplo brevior, obovatus, cariiia arcuata, levi sinu 

 in folium excurrens, apice quam basis multo latiore, oblique truncato, 



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