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spongy peat bog, some feet deep, and its surface is very little above high water mark. 

 The- Moss and adjacent cultivated land are protected from the sea by banks. There 

 are many grouse on it, and the large seagull builds its nest on some parts of it. 

 Hypniim Schreberi, Leiicobryum glaucum, yungermania Schraderi and Odontoschisma 

 Spliagni, all fruit there." By carefully watching his plant, at brief intervals, he was 

 at length rewarded by gathering it in perfect fruit, but not until July, 1877. 



The cladogenous, or quasi-lateral, inflorescence satisfied me from the first that 

 the plant must be either a Cephalozia or the type of a new genus ; so, until a better 

 name could be found for it, it was called and distributed as Cephalozia cladorhizans 

 Stabler, and neither of us thought, for a good while, of looking for It among the varieties 

 of yunger mania inflata described by Nees; the inflorescence and the possession offla- 

 gella and underleaves evidently removing it widely from that species. It was not until 

 after we had got the fruit that, reading over with more care Nees's description of his 

 y.Jluitans (which he afterwards merged In J. inflata], I saw that Mr. Stabler's plant 

 must be the same species ; and specimens from Herr Llmprlcht, gathered In Nees and 

 Funck's original station, removed all doubt of their identity. 



The previous history of C£/^a/o^Jrt^MJirt«5, up to the time when I made its ac- 

 quaintance, I have already sketched, with the exception that Llndberg had found the 

 male plant In Finland, and described It In the 'Botanlska Notiser' for 1872 as 

 Cephalozia obtiisiloba n. sp.; being evidently (like ourselves) unaware that it had been 

 already named and described forty nine years before ; and that, ten years earlier still, 

 a good figure of it had been published (but under a false name) in the 'English 

 Botany' of Sowerby and Smith. 



28. Cephalozia heterostipa Carr. et Spriice, n. sp. 



Dioica, majuscula depresso-csespitosa e viridi rufescens badiave, 

 interdum aurantiaca, fragilis. Gaules \ — 1-pollicares intricati validi 

 flexuosi, tota longitudine albido-radicellosi, simplices vel persaepe semel 

 bisYe dichotomi — apice novello semper fere bifurcati — interdum (nee 

 semper) ramos posticos stoloniformes breves radicellosos ex parte foliosos 

 (raro omnino aphyllos) proferentes. Cellules caulis 7 vel -8 in diametro, 

 corticales 20 — 22-seriat8e subquadratse subopacse, internae subangustiores 

 magis pellucidse. Folia basi diagonali inserta, inferiora distantia patula 

 oblonga v. cuneato-oblonga, ad ^ subacute biloba, lobis obtusatis rotunda- 

 tisve, saepe decolora ; superiora approximata et plus minus imbricata — flo- 

 rem Q et caulis furcas versus praecipue — intensius colorata, latiora, cune- 

 ata assurgenti-concava saepe ad ^ usque biloba, perssepeque 3-vel etiam 4- 

 loba, angulata vel obsolete denticulata,lobis solum obtusis, interdum sub- 

 acutis, sub-aequalibus, vel altero externo — nunc antico, nunc postico — 

 niinore ; cellule sat parvse 4 — 6 gonae subleptodermes, ad angulos vix sub- 



