158 | LEJEUNEAE OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA 
Lejeunea (Eu-Lejeunea) lucens Steph. Hedwigia, 29 : 84. 1890. 
Pale green, scattered or growing in depressed tufts: stems 
prostrate, 0.05 mm. in diameter, sparingly and irregularly branched, 
the branches sometimes microphyllous: rhizoids scanty: leaves | 
distant to imbricated, the lobe obliquely spreading, ovate, on well- | 
developed axes 0.25 mm. long, 0.17 mm. wide, plane, rounded at 
the apex or sometimes varying to obtuse, margin entire or sub- 
crenulate from projecting cells, antical margin arching partially 
across axis, slightly rounded or almost straight at base, postical 
margin forming a continuous line or a very obtuse angle with keel; 
lobule on well-developed axes about half as long as lobe, on mi- 
crophyllous branches sometimes as long as lobe, strongly inflated, 
ovoid, 0.01 mm. long, 0.09 mm. wide, keel strongly arched, free .— 
ry rarely without innovation; bracts 
complicate, subequally or somewhat unequally bifid, the lobe sub- 
erect, oblong-obovate, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, margin — 
entire or subcrenulate, 0.4 mm. long, 0.2 mm. wide, lobule rounded 
to acuminate at the apex, 0.4 mm. long, 0.2 mm. wide, sometimes 
narrower ; bracteole free or nearly so, ovate 0.45 mm. long, 0.25 p 
= wide, bifid about one third with acute lobes and obtuse sinus, - 
: Nate en bearing a blunt lobe-like tooth on one ， 
"nat trees or moist rocks: Virginia (Sullivant); Florida (Miss 
"c ecome, J. D. Smith, Underwood); Mississippi (Lloyd and 
