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7, slender, cylindrical, rich reddish-brown; 8 lower very distant, nearly 
2 inches apart, 14 inch long (or more), and compound or subpanicled, 
unisexual, female, save 1 or 2 male flowers at the base, nodding ; 4 upper 
erowded and shorter (except the top one which is 2 inches long), unisexual, 
male, but having a few female flowers at the top of spikelets. Bracts very 
long, 2 lowest foliaeeous and much longer than the culm, the upper ones 
setaceous and reaching to about the length of the culm, all very seabrid ; 
each bract having a pair of long membranaceous linear-oblong bracteoles 
(or sub-ligule) at base and clasping the peduncle. Pedwneles filiform, wiry, 
angled, and scabrid. Glumes oblong, much longer and broader than the 
utricle, shining, truncate, and fimbriate at tip, nerved, edges membrana- 
ceous, cuspidate or awned, the beak, or awn, stout, green (some white), very 
long (1 line, and some more), very coarsely barbed. Utricle glabrous, sub- 
oblong-ovate, brown, bicuspidate, cusps spreading, barbed.  Stigmas 8, 
light-brown, rough, half-exserted, spreading at tips. Filaments and anthers 
very long ; filaments white, flaccid and much wrinkled ; anthers linear, api- 
culate at tip, reddish-brown. 
Hab. In Fagus forests, near Norsewood, with the preceding Uncinie : 
W. C. | 
Class III. CRYPTOGAMIA. 
OrpverR V. HEPATICÆ. 
Genus 30. Symphyogyna, Mont. and Nees. 
Symphyogyna biflora, sp. nov. 
Plant, terrestrial, gregarious, each plant simple, erect, stipitate, the 
largest under 1 inch long; roots short hairy; stipe 4—6 lines long, sub- 
flexuose, compressed, winged above, 2-nerved from the base of frond; 
nerves very distinct; frond, decurrent on the stipe, 38-5 lines long, 7-9 
lines broad at base, mostly branching at base into two main divisions, each 
division once or twice dichotomous, symmetrical, kidney-shaped in outline, 
sometimes palmate, glabrous, pellucid, very finely reticulated ; colour, light- 
green; segments linear, or linear-spathulate, 1 line broad, very obtuse, 
. rounded at apex, deeply emarginate with sides conniving, nerved to base of 
notch, margins finely serrate ; teeth long faleate and transversely barred ; 
sinuses rounded ; fructification in axils of nerves near base of frond beneath, 
generally two on each plant, symmetrical; involucre a small narrow oblong 
scale in front of calyptra, jagged at margin; in a few of the largest plants, 
two additional involucres have been noticed, one at the base of each upper 
pair of nerves: calyptra tubular, 8-831 lines long, bifid at apex, margins 
fimbriate : peduncle 1 inch long, erect, chartaceous, white: capsule 2 lines 
long, linear-oblong, cylindric, acute, 4-valved, abounding in long elaters ; 
colour, rich red-brown. 
