174 JUNGERMANNIACEAE 
Green, reddish-brown, or fuscous, densely depressed-caespi- 
tose or rather laxly repent : stems light brown ог greenish, I-3 
cm. long, .1-.22 mm. in diameter, once or twice pinnate: dorsal 
lobes of leaves more or less imbricate, suborbicular, those of the 
main stem .45-.8 mm. x .35-.8 mm., al arching over the stem 
and cordate at base, entire, rounded-obtuse and somewhat de- 
curved at apex, discolored cells scattered or wanting ; lobules 
oval-cylindrical to short-clavate, .13-.22 mm. x .00-.1 
less auriculate at base, bifid about М their length with mostly sub- 
acute lobes and narrow or broad sinus, margins entire, plane 
or slightly reflexed at the sides : superior and median cells of the 
dorsal lobes mostly 10-20 и, all rather thick-walled, trigones in- 
conspicuous and intermediate thickenings scanty : dioicous : androe- 
са subglobose, 4 bracts 2- 5 pairs : archegonia terminal on a short 
sal lobes ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire ; lobules lanceo- 
late or subulate, acuminate, often canaliculate or tubulose by the 
connate with the bract on one side, ovate, bifid to about the mid- 
dle with subulate-acuminate or lanceolate-acuminate lobes and 
bearing on either side at the base a distinct usually laciniate segment, 
otherwise entire : perianth ovoid, 1.6-2 mm. x .9-1.2 mm., some- 
What gradually or rather abruptly narrowed to the short beak, 
тет unicarinate ventrally, smooth : mature sporogonium un- 
nown. 1 
Exsicc. Нер. Bor.-Am. 108, 2. р. (distributed as F. Nisqual- 
lensis). : ' 
Нер. Аш. тоў. 
On rocks, logs, and trunks of living trees. Mission Dolores 
(Bolander) and Clarendon Heights (Howe), San Francisco; Mill 
Valley and Olema, Marin Co. ; Duncan's Mills (1209) and ** Tur- 
ner's Cañon,” Sonoma Со.; “ Wildcat Cañon,” near Berkeley ; 
near Lake Pilarcitos, San Mateo Co. (Blasdale) ; Pacific Grove, 
Monterey Со. There are in existence several additional speci- 
mens of Dr. Bolander's collecting, attributed simply to-“ Cali- 
fornia.” The species extends as far north as Victoria, B. C., where 
It has been collected by Professor Macoun. 
