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it again grows na ぴ ower, and ends in a sharpish point as it began. 
Stem is undivided at the base : for a more or 1 が s long distances, then 
becomes divaricately dichotomous, the distance between the lower clicho- 
tomies being longer than that b お wee 打 the upper ones. Somedmes the 
ramification is more regularly dichotomous in somewhat flabeilate 
manner, but more usually it is irregular, irregulanties being agisted 
by divaricately decompound segmeii1:s and by large secondary brandies, 
whic 凸 have developed from proliferations, e け her simply elongating or 
similarly dichbtomo-decompou 凸 ded as other potion of む ond. In some 
specimens, segments expand somewhat beneath the forks, being slightly 
canaliculated. All the branches are beset on both sides (rarely む om 
surface) with proliferous ramu じ ， usually 1-2 cm long, distichous, scat- 
tei*ed, some standing 凸 earer to each other in seciind manner, others raiJier 
i*emote ; some i*emain simple and slio け， othe が fbrke ん Pro] derations 
are linear con が noted at base, tapering at apex. Terminal segments 
〇む 611 elongate. 
Fruits of both kinds are formed in ultimate segments and proli- 
ferous ramuli. T が raspores forming a subsoriis in the median or tei> 
minal po け ion of ramuli, oblong, immei’sed among cortical 负 lamenis. 
Cy が ocarps here and there scattered in a few groups in terminal portion 
of れ ond and in pi'olif*eratio 凸 s. They are not found in older a 凸 cl lower 
segments. 
Color dull purplisli-greei], becoming greenisli-yellow. Substance 
caiftilaginou も becoming firmer in drying. Plants do not adhe が to paper 
ill drying. 
The present plant which may be ire も rred to the section cnond’ro- 
が lyilum distributed by 王 >rof*. J. Agai.dh, and may be placed in the 
vicimty of G)、oieloupia dicho か ma, け ?，, spathulata and Gr. (Jos の ih の / n. 
The many "times dichotomous む ond of the piresent plant induces us to 
think ol: け s relation with Gr. dichotoma, to which it s が ms to me to 
be most closely が lated ; but the more regularly (iiciiotomo-fa が igiate ， 
small sized habit of the latter di げ eirs fVoni the more divaricate and large 
size ot the present. Moreover, I remember the substance to have 
been thinner in cuclwtcma, & ‘ む agmenta] si)ecimen of which I 
have seen in the herbarium of the Imperial University in Tokio. 
Gvat. s で athulata, Qii the contrary, di 街 eirs む om the piresent by its larger 
size, its broader segments, and its t が minal spathulate lacineae. Grot. 
