888 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Prothallium branched, producing small simple and isolated 
plunts; stem very short, furnished with about twenty leaves, 
which diverge in the form of a star, and thus give the species a 
peculiar appearance. The leaves are stiff, flat, and straight, and 
are thereby distinguished very clearly from those of FH. serratum, 
which, on the contrary, are concave and incurved, so as to envelope 
swelling, which is convex on both surfaces, and the swollen cells of 
which are filled with large opaque granules. This base is quickly 
contracted into a narrow elongate limb, which is regularly acuminate. 
In the swollen base the cells are very large, hexagonal, almost as 
broad as they are long; they become more elongate in the limb— 
from four to seven times as long as they are broad. The male and 
female flowers terminate distinct stems. The oval, orange, apiculate 
capsule is a little smaller than that of FE. serratum, but of the same 
colour and general appearance. The calyptra is relatively larger, 
covering two-thirds of the capsule.’ Vaginula oval; seta distinct. 
Spores round, yellowish, smooth, up to ‘045 mm. in diameter, not 
much more than half that of the spores of EZ. serratum. 
__Hab. Damp clayey earth of roads by the side of woods, Bru- 
ailles, Sadne-et-Loire, France (Philibert). By the sides of roadways 
m a damp sandy clay soil in the Warren, Crowborough, Sussex, 
and Bedgbury Park Woods, Kent (W.E. N.). ‘ 
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m the same article. I have found the male flowers on a small short 
stem near the base of the female flower, as in F. serratum. 
hemerum stellatum Philibert.—Fig. 1. Whole plant (Crowborough), X 30. 
of s . Areolation of leaf-apex of e, x 300. 4. Leaf of 
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