48 Eucephalozia 



laxiuscule imbricata assurgenti-subsecunda, succuba, basi perbrevi fere 

 transversa inserta, valde oblique obovata concava, margine antico fere 

 recto, postico basi late semicordata, auricula inflexa (ad Puidulm et 

 LejeunecB lobuli instar) margineque folio apioressa, ad carinaui ventricosa ; 

 ab apice ultra \ biloba ; siuu pro more late lunulari ; lobis incurvo- 

 laamatis capillari-cuspidatis, cuspide cellulas 8 — 10 oblongo-quadratas 

 uniseriatas sistente ; celhdcs parvulae quadratse guttulats, parieti ad 

 angulos incrassato, auriculae (nisi marginales) subminores. — Folium 

 axillare (ad caulis furcam, ubi adest) acuminatum integrum, altero crure 

 abortieute. — Folia ad caulis ramive elougati apicem interdum fere 

 symmetrica, auricula inflexa obsoleta. — Foliola nulla. Putwidi Q pro 

 more brevissimi, bracteas trijugas tristichas cum perianthio solum 

 gerentes ; nonnumquam paulo longiores, folia parva paucijuga infra 

 bracteas monstrantes. Bractece intimse erectfe oblongfe complicato- 

 bilobae, lobis subovatis apiculatis, subliberse, toto margine nisi basin 

 versus minutule incequaliter spinuloso-denticulatae ; bracteola conformis. 

 Bractete exteriores abrupte minores ; omues bractete exauriculatfe, 

 bracteolatfe. Periantliia magna ssepius medio roseo-purpurea, apice 

 albida, linearia, altetriquetro-prismatica, ore lato truncato hiante- — rarius 

 constricto — setulosa, setulis 1 — 4 cellulas minutas quadratas longis ; 

 substantia tenui, cellulis unistratis conflata. Calijptra tenuis. Capsida 

 oblongo-globosa, baud duplo longior quam lata. Andracia terminalia 

 polypbylla ; hractece foliis subsimiles magis symmetricae, cuspidibus 

 strictioribus, auricula i^ostica nulla, antice tamen saepe basi dente 

 autheridium solitarium obvelante auctse : — Folia -65 x -4 (^pUca Jiaud 

 exjAanata); cellnlcE 1/40 mm, 



Jungermania curvifolia Hook. Brit. Jung. t. 15 et Suppl. t. 1 (ex parte). 

 — Jung. Baueri Mart. Fl. Crypt. Erlang. 



Xoicellia curvifolia Mitt, in Godman's 'Natural History of the Aeores 

 (1870).' 



Hab. On rotting trunks and on rocks (chiefly of soft sandstone) 

 throughout Europe, from hapland to the Pyrenees, but at wide intervals, 

 and nowhere to be called common. In the north it grows in the plains 

 and lower hills ; in the south, in the middle wooded zone of the 

 mountains. In the Pyrenees and in 2Iexico it ascends to 4, — 6,000 feet; 

 in the British Isles it descends almost to the sea-level. C. catenulata is 



