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14. Cephalozia Vikginiana Spruce. 



Dioica et monoica, cladocarpa eflagellaris, prostrata radicellosa sat 

 ramosa, albicans, raro in colorem fulvum roseumve vergens. Folia 

 parvula explanato-disticlia contigua vel subimbricata oblique ovato- 

 subrotunda, fere vel adusque medium biloba, sinu obtuso vel subacute, 

 lobis patentibus triangularibus acuminato-acutis ; cellulce parvee sub- 

 quadrato-hexagonee opaculse, paucse juxta caulem submajores magisque 

 pellucidee ocellum quasi sistentes, omnes leptodermes. Foliola nulla 

 nisi ab florescentias, Flores plerumque dioici, interdum tamen autoici. 

 AndrcRcia longispica, ramum totum pro more tenentia; hractece ad 10- 

 jugse confertsB assurgentes, foliis concolores et subsequilongse, latiores 

 tamen, orbiculataB concavissimae breviter acute 2 — S-lobse monandrse. 

 Bractea $ tristichse sub S-jugse, intimse foliis duplo longiores, ssepe con- 

 natae, rotundo-quadratae ad ^ bilobse, lobis tennuiacuminatis, spina 

 denteve una alterave utrinque armatae. Perianthia magna lineari- 

 clavata (i.e. supra medium paulo latiora) altiuscule obtuse 3-carinata, 

 ore constricto inequaliter setulosa, leptodermia nisi prope basin ubi 2 

 cell, crassa. Capsula alte exserta magna ovali-cylindrica, plus duplo 

 longior quamlata rufo-badia bistrata. — F -25 x "2; c ^Z+s; br -5 — 6; per. 

 2-G X -5; caps -6 x -25, -75 x -35 ™i». 



Hub. on decaying timber near Portsmouth, Virginia. (Hb. Schimper, 

 without contributor's name). 



Obs. I have hesitated a long time whether to admit this plant to specific rank, or 

 to reduce it to a variety of C. catemilata. I have taken the former course for these 

 reasons : C. Virginiaiia is certainly occasionally monoicous, although the sexes very 

 mostly occupy separate plants (while C. catemilata is invariably dioicous) ; the large 

 elongate male spikes are a great contrast to the small ones of C. catemilata ; the leaves 

 are paler, remarkably flattened, even in the dry state, and their straight lobes are 

 very sharp-pointed ; the perianth is proportionately larger, clavate — being widest 

 above the middle, which it is not in C. catemilata — and the contracted mouth is more 

 shortly and unequally setulose or ciliolate. 



15. Cephalozia multiflora Spruce, n. sp. 

 Dioicn cladocarpa eflagellifera, humilis, amcene vel pallide viridis, 

 dense depresso-csespitosa — in Sphagnetis laxe reptans — prostrata sub- 

 ramosa, interdum subpinnata, ramis radicellosis apice assurgente a 

 rhizis, flagellis 0. Caulis subcompressus — supra fere planus, subtus 

 convexus," celMis' 6 vel 7 in diametro; c. corticales 12 — 14-seriat3e 

 majusculae pellucidae, internee multo angustiores subopacse. Folia parva 



