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MARSUPELLA SPARSIFOLIA (Latnps.). 
By W. H. Pearson. 
(Puate 248). 
Jungermania Funckii Auct. p. Pp. a 
Sarcoscyphus Funckii, a. major, a Nat. Eur. Leb. i. p. 185, 
No. 5 (p. p.?), 1838. G. L. N. Syn. 
0. 
p. 280, No. 18 (1868). Hartm. Skand. Fil. x. ed. ii. p. 129, No. 8 
‘oth Lindb. in Not. pro F. Fl. fen. Fath. (1874). Limpr. 
dia + (Marsupelia) sparsifolia Lindb. in Not. pro F. Fl. fenn. 
Fath. x xili. p. 370 (1874 
Marsupella sparsifolia Dum. Hep. Eur. p. 128 (1874). 
Nardia sparsifolia Lindb. Musci Scand. ie. 158, p. 9 (1879), <A 
Mass..ed Carest. Ep. Alp. Penn. Nuo. Gior. Bot. ‘Ttal. xii. No. 4, 
p. 318 (1880). See Nuo. Gior. Bot. Ital. xiv. No. 3, p. 221 (1882). 
halen adusta, var. b. sparsifolia, Lond. Catal. p. 27 (1881). 
Sarcoscyphus sparsifolia, var. noricus, Limpr. Jahr.-Ber. Schl. 
Ges. p. 180 (1881 
Delin. Mass. ed a Ep. Alp. Penn. Nuo. Gior. Bot. 
Ttal. tab. xii. fig. 1 (18 
Exsi Lindb. et Licks: Hep. Scand. Ex. No. 21. 
ose ‘On rocks in alpine and subalpine situations, Loch-na-gar, 
Aberdeen, J. & T. Sim, 14th August, 1876. Distributed by Mr. 
Sim as M. emarginata, Srl form; detected by Dr. Carrington, and 
inserted in ‘ London Catalogue,’ p. 21 (1881), a placed in Province 
16 in error: should be 15. Found on the Continent in Norway, 
Sweden, Lapland, Pras and Sitzerla nd. 
Measurements. Stems 4 to near so diam. ‘16 mm. x °13 
mm.; leaves -°8 mm. Xx °8 as -25 mm. deep, ‘85 mm. x 
65 mm., sinus ‘25 mm. deep ; saiiavoinerg! leaves 1°2 mm. x 11 
mm., sinus -4 mm. deep; — leaves 1°6 mm. x 1:1 mm., 
sinus ‘5 mm. deep, 1°5 mm. x 1:3 mm., 1:4 mm. x 1.1 mm.; 
perigonial leaves ‘9 mm. may mm., sinus ‘2 mm. deep; colesule 
1-2 mm. high from tei of involucr: segments *4 mm.; leaf-cells 
02 mm. x "08 mm., ‘02 mm. x ‘02 mm.; cells of stem, exterior 
layer “0 02 mm. x ‘025 mm., eaeiée ‘015 mm. x °015 m 
Tufts of an olive or blackish brown aang cabaret not 
polished ; stems creeping, st entangled ; stoloniferous 
ot without or with a few leaves; shoots simple or rarely 
arly ate, annotinous, often one, two, or three innovations 
a single stem, erect, —_— frontally compressed, cross-sections 
ovate to ovate-orbicul 
Rootlets short, siersy mostly on the — side of the creeping 
stems and stolons, rarer on the erect shoo 
Leaves about — to twenty sae famichous or subsecund, 
alternate, clasping stem at the decurrent base, ascending; lower 
leaves approximate, Saaieade, nonce’ distant; the few leaves 
JouRNAL OF e Borany. —Von. 22. [Aveusr, 1884.] Q 
