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He called attention further to its deeply laciniate mouth and to the fact that 
it was “highly connate” with the bracts. In transferring the species to the 
genus Nardia, Lindberg was so impressed with the peculiarities of the perianth 
Figs. 1-3. Plants with perianths and perigonial bracts, XiS- 
Figs. 4, 5. Innermost perichaetial bracts from a single inflorescence, X15. 
Fig. 6. Mouth of perianth from the same inflorescence, X 15- 
Fig. 7. Mouth of perianth from another inflorescence, X15. 
The figures were all drawn from specimens collected near Closter, New Jersey, by C. F. 
Austin and distributed in Hep. Bor.-Amer. 32, as Jungermannia fossombronioides. The rhizoids 
are not represented. 
that he made them the basis for the new section Chascostoma and even suggested 
that this section might represent a valid genus. He noted the paroicous inflor- 
escence of the species, the presence of long flagella or stolons and the absence 
