LEPIDOZIA 187 
1. LEPIDOZIA REPTANS (L.) Dumort. Rec. d’Obs. Jung. 19. 1835. 
Jungermannia reptans L. Sp. Pl. 1133. 1 755. 
Pleuroschisma reptans Dumort. Syll. Jung. 69. 18 37: 
Негрейит reptans Nees, Naturgesch. Eur. Leberm. 3:734: 
1838. 
In depressed mats or creeping among mosses : stems prostrate, 
6-25 mm. long, .18—.36 mm. in diameter, subpinnately to bipin- 
nately ramose, the branches ending obtusely or often becoming 
flagelliform : leaves obliquely inserted, patent-horizontal to erecto- 
patent, mostly approximate or subimbricate, rarely distant, sub- 
quadrate, inclining occasionally to ovate or obovate, .36-.45 mm. 
long, -25-.54 mm. broad, decurved, 3- or 4- (rarely 2-) cleft for 
5-22 their length, the lobes unequal, mostly lanceolate-acute or 
subulate, incurved, 4-8 cells wide at base ; leaf-cells 24—48 и, their 
firm walls obscurely or not at all incrassate at the angles, cuticle 
smooth : underleaves distant or contiguous, subquadrate, broader 
than long, 2-2 the size of the leaves, mostly 4-lobed to about the 
middle, the lobes usually obtuse : autoicous : androecium typically 
on a short ventral branch, rarely borne on a branch of lateral 
origin: axis of 9 branch about . 5 mm. long, archegonia 2-6: 
9 bracts 2—3-dentate at apex, margins entire or slightly denticu- 
late : perianth subcylindrical or narrowly ovoid-conical, 2-2.7 mm. 
long, 63-1 mm. in greatest width (below the middle), rounded- 
trigonous above, the wall of 2 or 3 layers of cells in the basal half 
or third, otherwise unistratose, the mouth denticulate : capsule 
about 1.2 mm. x. mm.; seta 1—2 cm. long ; spores 14-16 p, dis- 
У granulate-papillate; elaters 200-325 их 10-16 и, rather 
obtuse, 
On old logs in moist woods, on banks of streams, among 
mosses, etc, Not especially common in California. “ Redwood 
Cafion," near Mill Valley, Marin Co.; near Mendocino (720) and 
North Fork of the Little River (658), Mendocino Co.; Eureka 
(906, 929), Humboldt Co.; near Hay Fork (1120), Trinity Co.; 
Sisson (36), Siskiyou Co. . Collected at Mendocino also by Dr. 
Bolander and in Marin County by Professor Underwood (June, 
1888), 
Dr, Spruce,* in describing the dioicous Lepidozia Pearsoni, in 
Which the androecia normally terminate lateral branches, has stated 
that in Lepidosia reptans the male spike always occupies а postical 
; branch, The Californian specimens of Lepidozia reptans, however 
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* Jour. Bot. 19: 35. 1881. 
