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A NEW BRITISH HEPATIC. 
By Rey. D. Linum, B.D. 
Cultur, 61, 204 sae ne pp eae hue hiana p vica Ek- 
strand, Bot. Notis. 36 (1879). J. Miilleri forma qurohed Barnet; 
Cat. Hép. Sud- ee de la Suisse, &c. 68, Pl. 3 (1888). J. Kawrini 
Limpr. B. Kaalaas, L Norge, p. 862 (1898). 
renege Kaurin i (Li mpr.) Steph. Bull. de l'Herb. oieiat, ii. 1, 
1147 re a3 Lophozia Kaurini (Limpr.) Evans, Yukon Hepatice, 
p. 20 (19 
“ yale 2-4 cm. longa et cum foliis 8 mm. lata, evi moe lo- 
— acriter aromatico-odora, cespites sat latos et la ormans. 
Caulis laxus, erectus vel humifusus, postice ubique sis longeque 
hyalino-radicellosus, vulgo simplex, innovationibus 1-2 et ramis 
nonnullis tenuibus laxe foliatis ex axillis folioram latere postico. 
Folia laxa, undulato-flexuosa, valde oblique inserta, horizontaliter 
ecu 
rotundatis, postico vulgo majore sinu iat obtuso. Cellule rotun- 
dato-hexagone, basilares ovales, ma inales minores, omnes valde 
collenchymatice, parum chlo sophyllitet: in foliis vetustioribus 
Sepe inanes, cuticula grosse striolato-verruculosa. Amphigastria 
pro mag pines plante parva, subulata—lanceolata, integra, rarius 
ad 4i Horta r bifida. 
Bractee anus foliis majores, 4-6-juge (rarius pluri-juge), 
piri tote affixe, dimidio superiore reflexe, sin <tetedin 
ane tran uncate—undulato-repande, interdum tamen etiam bilobe, 
i Bracteola angus ad lanceolata ad basin lateribus am- 
babis dente longa subulata munita. Perianthium terminale cylin- 
dricum—c lindrico-clavatum, j janine inferne e latere leniter com- 
ongate. Capsula parva, ovalis; spori brunnei minute 
verruculosi ; elateres duplo angustiores, bispiri, spiris purpureis.”’ 
(Kaalas, l,c., after Limpricht). 
abitat.— Among mosses on damp shady rocks, Ousdale, Caith- 
Bee June 2nd, 1903. Found also in Norway, Switzerland, 
Siberia, North America (Yukon). 
I gathered the J. Kaurini Limpr. at Ousdale, Caithness, about 
