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7, slender, cylindrical, rich reddish-brown ; 3 lower very distant, nearly 

 2 inches apart, 1£ inch long (or more), and compound or subpanicled, 

 unisexual, female, save 1 or 2 male flowers at the base, nodding; 4 upper 

 crowded 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 foliaceous and much longer than the culm, the upper ones 

 setaceous and reaching to about the length of the culm, all very scabrid ; 

 each bract having a pair of long membranaceous linear-oblong bracteoles 

 (or sub-ligulae) at base and clasping the peduncle. Peduncles 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 3, 

 light-brown, rough, half-exserted, spreading at tips. Filaments and anthers 

 very long ; filaments white, flaccid and much wrinkled ; anthers linear, api- 

 cnlate at tip, reddish-brown. 



Hab. In Fagus forests, near Norsewood, with the preceding Uncinice : 

 W. C. 



Class III. Cryptogamia. 

 Order V. HEPATIC^. 

 G-enus 30. Symphyogyna, Mont, and Nees. 

 Syniphyof/yna 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, 3-5 lines long, 7-9 

 lines broad at base, mostly branching at base into two maiu 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 falcate 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, 3-3^ 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. 



