186 JUNGERMANNIACEAE 
28. LEPIDOZIA * Dumort. Rec. d'Obs. Jung. 19. 1835. б. 
Г. & М. Syn. Hep. 200. 1845. 
Pleuroschisma $ Lepidozia Dumort. Syll. Jung. 69. 1831. 
Mastigophora Nees, Naturgesch. Eur. Leberm. 1: 95, 101. 
1833. 
Herpetium $ Lepidosia Nees, ор. си. 3: 31. 1838. 
Plants small or moderately large, pallescent or yellowish-green, 
in dense, often depressed mats. Stems prostrate or ascending, 
rarely erect or pendulous, pinnately or bipinnately branched, often 
beautifully plumose, the vegetative branches lateral in origin, 
rarely ventral; root-hairs rather scanty, mostly from the ventral 
surface of the underleaves. Leaves incubous, small, ventrally con- 
cave, decurved, unsymmetrical, usually as broad as long, palmately 
4- (rarely 2- or 3-, or 5- or 6-) cleft or -parted, the segments 
lanceolate or subulate and (in our species) entire ; leaf-cells rather 
small or medium-sized. Underleaves present throughout, similar 
to the leaves but symmetrical and somewhat smaller. Dioicous 
or autoicous. Androecium occupying a short ventral ramulus or 
lar. Perianth free, cylindrical.ovoid to narrowly fusiform, more 
perianth. Capsule cylindrical-ovoid dehiscing to the base ч 
straight valves, these 2—4-stratose, the walls of the external се у 
with columnar or nodular thickenings, those of the inmost laye 
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the name Mastigophora, 
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