72 Oephaloziella 



lanceolatis acutis apiculatisve, lobo antico erecto caulique subparallelo, 

 Ijostico (parum latiore) angulo sub 60° patents ; cellules minutse quadrato 

 -hexagons planee pulchre guttulatee, pariete ad angulos valde incrassato, 

 eudocliromio parco. FoUola nulla. Flores Q in ramo ssepius elongate 

 terminales, innovatione nulla suffulti. £ractecs propise uni-tri-jugae 

 intimse foliis duplo fere majores, basi antica connatse, spinoso-dentatae 

 bilobas, lobis subacuminatis acntis ; bracteola cum altera bractea alte 

 connata ovata subacuminata Integra bilobave spinoso-dentata. (Folia 

 bracteis proxime sequentia csefceris foliis submajora, basi libera tamen, 

 loliolo nullo adjecto.) Perianthia alte emersa tenuia, cellulis unistratis 

 (nisi ut in ipsa basi ad angulos interdum bistratis) conflata, linearia 

 (basi perpaulo angustata) pentagono-prismatica, carinis altiusculis, apice 

 rotundata, ore fere clauso obscure cHiolata. Calyptra tenuis. Capsula 

 ovalis. Andrcccia in eadem, vel ssepius in diversa, stirpe, medium ra- 

 mum pro more tenentia; bracteis assurgentes plurijugae foliis subcon- 

 formes — imo interdum majores — monandrse. — F "25 x -2; c 1/70— i/so; hr 

 •4; 2:)er 1.0 x -25 ^^. 



Hah. Sandy or loamy situations, under shade of bushes, or on ditch- 

 banks, nearly always associated with Atrichum umlulatum, DiplophijUum 

 albicans, and sometimes with Nardia scalaris and ^Y. Finikii- S.W. of 

 Ireland : Bantry fniss hutchinsj; Cromagloicn (^. o. lindbeeg). Eng- 

 land : Sussex, Tilgate Forest, (edw. jennee. May, 1842; g. davies, 1879). 

 France : Dejjt. of Maine-and-Loire (^guepinj ; rock on the bank of the 

 Maine near Chalet, also on a ditch-bank in the Chalet woods in fruit 

 f^BKiN et CAMUS, 1878); near Vire, Normandy, with Nardia Funkii (Hh. 

 schimpee); Canary Isles (webb). Africa : neur Tangier (SAlzmann). 



Rami plerique laterales, e folii media axilla orti, quando caulis furcatus evadit), fre- 

 quentius lobo postico solo velati; adveniunt rarius rami postici, e caulis tergo — extra 

 foliorum bases — exeuntes. Caulis ipso apice fructifer; rami fertiles interdum abbre- 



viati, s^pius elongati. 



In speciminibus a cl. Lindbergio lectis bractese intims cum bracteola biloba in 

 excipulum alte connatse; exteriores minus alte — vel uno solo latere — connatae. 



Obs. A curious and beautiful little plant, standing on the confines of several 

 genera. Except for its similarity to Cephalozia dentata — in habit, and in its toothed 

 complicate leaves — and for the occasional occurence of of a postical branch, there is 

 little to identify it with Cephalozia. Its toothed, pectinato-distichous leaves bring it 

 very near to ytingermania Hclleriana, on the one hand, and Antheliaphyllacantha on the 

 other. By Dumortier, indeed, it was placed in /4?zi/?gZJa.- a genus sufficiently distin- 

 guished from C. Turneri and every other Cephalozia by the unfertilised pistillidia being 

 carried up by the fertilised one, i.e. by the calyptra ; and by the perianth being 10- 

 plicate at the mouth. 



