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chambers and in the cells forming the roof. Solms-Laubach has 
stated that there are no stomata on the female receptacle of E. 
pustulosa. Stephani 1 also states that the chambers on the female 
receptacle do not open to the outside. Stomata, however, are found 
on the female receptacle of the present species and they are bounded 
by more definite cells both as regards the number and the size of 
the latter. Here the stoma is surrounded -by a single ring of about 
seven cells and is not much raised (Fig. 2, b, /, g). The mature 
receptacle is usuallycarried upwards on a long stalk but occasionally 
the stalk remains very small. The stalk has a deep furrow containing 
rhizoids (Fig. 2, e).One or both involucres may develop sporogonia. 
The latter may be one or two in each involucre. The capsule has a 
small foot but a long seta. The latter may be as much as 1*5 mm. 
in length. The capsule is always fully exserted and directed upwards 
(Fig. 5, a, b). The involucre is at first bilabiate but later on opens by 
a circular mouth. The thin calyptra is left behind in the involucre. 
The capsule-wall is thickened in the same way as described by 
Solms-Laubach for E. pustulosa. The bands on the cells forming 
the lid are thicker and broader than those on the other cells. 
Sometimes in this region the radial walls of a few cells here and 
there are uniformly thickened in addition to their possessing the 
ordinary bands. In the upper half of the capsule four or five bands 
start from the centre of the inner wall and pass on to all the radial 
walls (Fig. 2, h). In the lower half of the capsule wall the bands 
are simply U-shaped. The elaters are 120 to 140/x long with three 
or four lax spiral bands. The spores (Fig. 2, i, j) are tetrahedral, 
55 to 60/x in diameter, covered with many hollow high conical 
papillae on the convex surface. The operculum has on its inner 
surface a few short elater-like cells which are spirally or annularly 
thickened. Sometimes these thick bands anastomose irregularly 
(Fig. 2, k ). Dehiscence of the capsule takes place by four irregular 
valves. 
The plant differs from the other species of this genus so far 
described in the following respects. (1) The scales have no 
appendages; (2) the plants form apical and particularly ventral 
tubers; (3) the female receptacle has stomata. 
Stephensoniella brevipedunculata Kashyap. 
The plants are found either singly growing hidden among 
grass and moss plants, or aggregated in large patches on bare rocks 
in more or less exposed places. Each plant has a thick base 
1 “ Species Hepaticarum,” vol. 1, 1900, p. 218. 
