(VOL. V, 1915). FRANZ STEPHANI. SPECIES HEPATICARUM LeptOCOlea. 



nentibus, plica antica subnulla. Folia floralia perianthio aequilonga, 

 lanceolata, divergenti-patula, subacuta, lobulus anguste lanceoJatus, 

 duplo brevior, parum solutus, acutus sub apice spinula obtusa annatus. 

 Andrcecia sessilia, bracteis 4-8 jugis. 



Hab. Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, Brasilia orientalis. 



4. Leptocolea Jooriana (Aust.) Evans. Mem. Torr. Bot. Cl. 

 1902, p. 173. 



Lejeunea Jooriana. Aust. Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. 1875, p. 20. 



Autoica pusilla, pallida vel flavo-virens, in cortice caespitans. Caulis 

 ad 6 mm. longus, irregulariter ramosus. Folia caulina parum imbricata, 

 recte patula concava apiceque decurva, in pJano ovato-oblonga (1 mm. 

 longa, inferne 0,58 mm. lata) superne Jonge attenuata, apice obtusa, 

 brevi basi inserta, basi antica truncato-rotundata, symmetrica, margi- 

 nibus cellulose-crenulatis. Cellulw marginales 14 y,, medie 12x18 51, 

 basales 18X27 u., apicales longse liyalinge, radialiter insertae, paucse, 

 rarius cristam latam formantes. Lobulus majusculus, folio triplo 

 brevior, obovato-obconicus, parum longior quam latus, carina oblique 

 adscendens, arcuata, stricte in folium excurrens, apice quam basis 

 multo latiore, oblique truncato, bidentato, dentibus inaequalibus, 

 mediano longiore, stylus minimus, bicellularis. Perianthia uno latere 

 innovata, obovata (0,83 mm. longa, medio0,58 mm. lata) inflata, apice 

 rotundata, quinqueplicata, plicis vix crenulatis, posticis in unam latam 

 confluentibus longeque decurrentibus, plica antica obsoleta, rostro 

 brevissimo. Folia floralia lanceolata, acuta perianthium longe superan- 

 tia, lobulus sequilatus sed duplo brevior, carina saccata, apice oblique 

 truncato, angulo apiculato. Antheridia solitaria vel geminata, in basi 

 perianthii, in fundo folii floralis. 



Hab. America septentrionalis . Florida. 



5. Leptocolea marginata (L. et L.) Evans, Torr. Bot. Cl. 1911, 

 p. 262. 



Dioica, mediocris pallida, in foliis repens. Caulis ad 2 cm. longus, 

 sparsim longeque ramosus. Folia caulina imbricata, oblique vel subrecte 

 patula, pubplana, late obovata, subsymmetrica (l,5mm. longa, 1 mm. 

 Jata) brevissima basi inserta, basi antica truncata, apice obtusa vel 

 rotundata, integerrima. Cellulse apicales 9x27 [x, hyalinae, crenatim 

 prominulee limbum bene definitum formantes, subapicales 9X9 jx, 

 mediae 27x27 basales 18X54 ft, trigonis nullis. Lobulus magnus, 

 folio triplo vel subduplo brevior, obovatus, carina arcuata, levi sinti 

 in folium excurrens, apice quam basis multo latiore, oblique truncato, 

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