OBSERVATIONS ON FOSSOMBRONIA 183 
associated with them, a few plants of Haplomitriwm Hookeri. 
hese Fossombronias included a single very foetid patch without 
spores, plants with spores resembling those of F’. cristata, and a 
series of aromatic, not appreciably foetid plants, possessing spore- 
ombronia angulosa, 
clumps near Drosera rotundifolia L. and longifolia L. The Stoke 
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oides ; (b) just within the wood on peaty clay; (c) upon stiff red 
clay of a cart-track in a wood, in deep shade, associated with 
Pellia calycina. : 
. The appearance presented by the Fossombronia varies greatly, 
and depends upon the particular phase of its life cycle and upon 
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fourth order, and about fifty perianths with sporogonia in different 
stages of development. There were about one hundred pairs of 
fully developed functional leaves, which extended in a bridging 
manner from.the axis.. The shape and size of the leaves: of both 
series varies considerably, those of the Woodbury Common Fossom- 
bronia being, on the whole, much smaller than those of the other 
es. 
_ As the sporophytic phase approaches the older parts of the 
plant die off, and numerous plantlets are left. In the open peaty 
growing in shade among tufts of Juncus bufonius frequently 
amphigastria, but not so fugitive as those of Pellia calycina, 
They oc 
ing point. They are filamentous, and may consist of three or of 
(ann ante anne rene 
* Journ. Bot. 1900. 
