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or sometimes entire, the ventral margins entire or toothed, quadrifid to one- 

 half of their length; segments unequal, triangular from a 4- to 10-celled hase, 

 the apex a row of two or three cells; leaf-cells of the base of the segment 

 mostly 10-18x18 /x, the walls thickened, the cuticle faintly papillose. Under- 

 leaves as broad or broader than the stem, quadrifid to the middle, the segments 

 slender from a 4- to 6-celled base, the tip of two or more cells, the margins of the 

 lamina with usually one sharp tooth on each side. Male inflorescence intercalary 

 on a branch [only one seen], the bracts and bracteoles in four series. Female 

 inflorescence and sporophytes not seen. PI. 44. Fig. 26, a-c. 



Habitat: On logs, tree bases and soil in forests, and on compact mounds 

 in bogs. 



JUAN FERNANDEZ: Masatierra, Skottsberg, the type of L. fernandeziensis (G). 



PATAGONIA— TIERRA DEL FUEGO: Chonos Archipelago, Darwin 461, (type FH) ; 

 8.1., Gay, Hb Montagne (PC); Valparaiso, without collector, Hb Montagne, as L. filamentosa 

 minus affine (PC); Valdivia, Hahn, ex Hb Jack, as L. angulata (G), Hahn, as L. fernande- 

 ziensis (G) ; Corral, Thaxter 20 p.p., 68, 117 p.p., 157 p.p. (MICH) ; Rio Aysen, Dusen 88a, 

 the type of L. hastata (G) ; Dusen (C, G) ; Lake Llanquihue, Dusen (G) ; Lanalhue. Bro. 

 Claude-Joseph 5972 (US); Pto Bueno, Dusen [44] (G) ; Punta Arenas, Darwin (G), Thaxter 

 56 (MICH); Magellan Straits, Nadaud F803725 p.p. (FH, G), Papeleur de Tarloo (G), 

 Dusen [297] (G), Warnstorf 9 p.p. (G) ; s.l., ex Hb Bescherelle (G-19) ; Hale Cove, Dusen, the 

 type of L. microscopica (G) ; York Bay, Lechler (G) ; w Canal, ex Hb Rom, as L. halleana 

 (G); w Patagonia, Skottsberg [1901-03] (S-PA), Skottsberg 559, the type of L. efiusa (G), 

 Skottsberg 887 (G) ; Pto Churques, Cunningham 69 p.p. (G) ; Pto Famine. Voy. Astrolobe 

 (G) : without collector. Hb Montagne (PC) ; Rio Blanco between Fuentes Bulness and Punta 

 Arenas, C. A. & G. Hdssel de Menendez 798 p.p. (BA 11139); Fuentes Bulness, C. A. & G. 

 Hdssel de Menendez 527 (BA 11119). Fuljord 16 (Hb Fulford) ; bog about 190 km n of Punta 

 Arenas near Hotel Rubens, Fulford 246, 252, 260, 265, 277, 288, p.p., 289, 290, 291 p.p., 293 

 (Hb Fulford) ; Riesco I., Seno Skyring, Punta Leon, C. A. & G. Hdssel de Menendez 480, 485 

 (BA 11072, 11077). Fuljord 333, 335, 341 p.p., 344, 358, 356 p.p., 376 p.p., (Hb Fulford). Rio 

 Azopardo, Dusen (G-97), Halle & Skottsberg (G), Dusen [83, 98] (G) ; s.l., Dusen [405] (G) ; 

 Clarence I., Exp. Antarc. belg. 431b; (BR, G) Desolation I., Dusen [160, 173] (C, G) ; Cape 

 Horn. Pto Hapler, Cunningham 79 p.p., ex Hb Kew (G-12) ; Lapataia, C. A. & G. Hdssel de 

 Menendez 717 p.p. (BA 11310) ; Los Cerros, C. A. & G. Hdssel de Menendez 625 p.p. (BA 

 11217) ; Lago Roca, C. A. & G. Hdssel de Menendez 807, 813-814 p.p., 818 (BA 11400, 11406. 

 11411); Lago Cami, C. A. & G. Hdssel de Menendez 856-57, 862 p.p. (BA 11449-50, 11455); 

 Ainsworth Bay, De Gasperi (FI) ; Laberinto. I., De Gasperi (FI) ; bahia below Monte 

 Sarmento, De Gasperi (FI) ; Pto Sicurezza. De Gasperi (FI). Hermite I., ex Hb Bescherelle, 

 the type of L. hanotii p.p. (G) ; Staten I., Spegazzini, "cum Massalonga 104a" (G) ; Staten I., 

 Skottsberg (S-PA) ; Pto Cook, Skottsberg (S-PA). 



FALKLAND ISLANDS: Pto Stanley, without collector (G-22) ; Pto Herrick, Skotts- 

 berg 17 (G); Pto Stanley, Skottsberg 28, as L. pallida (G-178). 



Additional reports include: Chile (Arnell, 1955, Bescherelle & Massalongo, 1889; Evans, 

 1898; Herzog, 1923, 1939b, 1942. 1943, 1948a, 1954. 1960; Herzog & Schwabe, 1939; Stephani 

 1900a, 1900b, 1901a, 1901b, 1911; Taylor & Hooker, 1847), Juan Fernandez (Arnell, 1957; 

 Herzog, 1942a; Stephani, 1911). Argentina (Herzog, 1957; Kiihnemann, 1949; Muller. 1955). 

 Tierra del Fuego (Massalongo, 1885, 1908, 1927; Stephani, 1901a, 1905a), and the Falkland 

 Islands (Skottsberg, 1913). 



27. Lepidozia cuspidata Stephani, Sv. Vet.-akad. Handl. 46': 61-62. /. 23, 

 a, b. 1911 ; Icon. Hep., No. 147. 



Plants small greenish-brown to pale brown, in loose mats; stems 3-5 cm long, 

 with leaves to 0.5 mm broad, bi- to sometimes tripinnately branched, lateral 

 branches mostly 2 mm apart, mostly 5 mm long, rarely flagelliform at the tips, 

 the ventral branches not seen. Line of leaf insertion oblique. Stem leaves distant 

 to approximate, spreading-concave with the outer part ascendent, 0.4-0.5 mm 

 long, mostly broader than long, the dorsal margin semicordate and with one to 



