142 JUNGERMANNIACEAE 
30. ANTHELIA Dumort. р. р. Rec. d'Obs. Jung. 18. 1835. 
Schiffn.; Eng. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1°: 106. 1895. 
Jungermannia $ Anthelia Dumort. р. р. Syll. Jung. 63. 1831. 
Anthelia $ А. Spruce, On Cephalozia, 80. 1882. 
Plants small, densely caespitose, olivaceous-green or glauces- 
cent.* Stems stout for the size of the plant, opaque, irregularly 
pinnate, the branches all lateral, cortical cells multiseriate, small 
to medium-sized; root-hairs few or abundant. Leaves small 
transversely inserted, erect or erecto-patent, somewhat complicate- 
carinate, commonly equitant-imbricate, bifid to the middle or be- 
low, the lobes subacuminate, several cells in width except at the 
extreme apex, the margins entire or erose-denticulate, Under- 
base, otherwise unistratose. Calyptra 2 or 3 cells thick, carry- 
ing on its surface the sterile archegonia and sometimes also 
cells, the walls of the outer layer with columnar or nodular thick- 
enings, those of the inner layer similarly marked toward the base 
of the capsule but bearing toward the apex more or less perfect 
semiannular fibers; seta short. Elaters 2- ог 3-spiral. 
I. ANTHELIA JURATZKANA (Limpr.) Trevis. Mem. г. Ist. Lomb. 
Ш. 4: 416. 1877. Spruce, On Cephalozia, 82. 188% 
Jungermannia Juratzkana Limpr.; Cohn, Krypt. -Е1. Schles. 1: 
289. 1877. Hedwigia, 15: 18. 1876. 
а 
delicate white 
d to consist of 
ameter 8: 
* Herbarium specimens of Anthelia are often thickly covered with a 
cobwebby growth, 
homogeneous Structure. The organism is evidently one of the colorless Ў 
z n this we would not attempt to express an opinion 85 s pie or les 
position. Schizophyceae and mycelia of fungi are usually also present in T° 
abundance. 
schizophyt' | 
