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aphyllopodic, the staminate and pistillate scales are 

 mucronate to aristate. 



It is also interesting to notice that the Macrochcetce- 

 alliance in the Japanese islands, so excellently described 

 by Franchet, contains no type comparable to C. neso- 

 phila; the members of this alliance are aphyllopodic and 

 of the same graceful habit as the typical C. macrochceta. 



Clinton, Md v August, 1921. 



EXPLANATION OF FIGUBES. 



Fig. 1. Car ex macrochaeta C. A. Mey., the typical plant; scale of the 

 staminate flower; enlarged. 



Fig. 2. Same species; scale of the pistillate flower; enlarged. 



Same species; utriculus; enlarged. 



C. macrochaeta var. emarginata nob. ; the inflorescence ; natural 



Scale of pistillate flower of same; enlarged. 



Utriculus of same; enlarged. 



C. macrochaeta var. macrochlaena nob.; the inflorescence; nat- 



Scale of pistillate flower of same; enlarged. 

 Utriculus of same; enlarged. 



C. nesophila nob.; the inflorescence; natural size. 

 Scale of pistillate flower of same; enlarged. 

 Utriculus of same; enlarged. 



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