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appressed to the stem so closely as to be readily overlooked, 
ovate, carinate-concave, cleft for half their length into two lanceo- 
late lobes, sinus acute, texture thin, chitinous, polished punctate- 
areolate, cells subquadrate, colour golden-brown. Involucral 
leaves much larger, vertically patent lobes shallower and more 
obtuse, half hiding the colesule. Colesule at first turbinate, when 
mature roundish-ovate, ventricose, obtusely-trigonous below, 
mouth contracted, 5 6 plicate, denticulate. 
Hab. Creeping among the spongy peat-like soil in moist 
crevices of the rocks in the stream from Ben Venue running in the 
direction of the Trossachs Hotel. Growing in company with Jang, 
laxifolia , July, 1876. 
If there is anything unsatisfactory about the individuality of 
J. Nevicensis , there can be none respecting the present species, 
which is one of the most interesting and distinct accessions 
recently made to our flora. In size it resembles J. divaricata , but 
its true alliance is with Jung, minuta , of which it might be 
accounted a microscopic form. 
Owing to the rigid chitinous texture of J. myriocarpa , the 
stems, and even colesules, decay very slowly, so that it is not un- 
common to find five or six colesules one above another, represent- 
ing the growths of so many seasons. This gives the plant a very 
characteristic appearance when it is remembered that the shoots are 
rarely more than from five to seven millimetres in length. 
The same proliferous habit is not uncommon in Jung, minuta. 
It is curious, too, that in both species the fructification is abortive 
and the pistillidia barren and undeveloped, probably from the 
absence of the male plant. 
114. Cephalozia multiflora. CHuds.J Lindb. 
In deference to the opinion of my friend, Mr. Slater, and I am 
given to understand of our greatest hepaticologist, Dr. Spruce, I 
insert this species under the above name. Whether it is the 
J. multiflora of Hudson I am unable to say, but the description in 
Withering and other old writers pertains to J. setacea. 
The oiiginal figure of Dillenius, T. 69, f. 4, represents, it 
appears to me, a var. of bicuspidata , nor can I detect any reliable 
distinction between the one and the other. Any one who will 
examine a large series of J. bicuspidata will be astonished at the 
variability in the form of the leaf and colesule, but the cell struc- 
ture is remarkably uniform, and if once understood it would be 
impossible to confound it with true J. connivens. 
In a note under J. setacea , Brit. Jungerm, T. viii., Sir W. 
Hooker remarks : — 
11 The specific name of multiflora was, in all probability, imposed 
upon this plant by Hudson, in consequence of the numerous foot- 
stalks represented in the Dillenian figure here quoted (T. 69, f. 4, 
A.B.), and has, in point of priority, a right to be retained ; but, 
as not only that engraving (although cited by Hudson and 
Linneus), but also the original drawing in Sir Joseph Banks’ 
