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to the stalk. The latter is thick and cylindrical less than 10 mm. 
in length. It is circular or more or less triangular in transverse 
section and more or less sulcate. Sometimes the ripe receptacle 
is quite sessile. 
There is no disc, or tissue proper, of the receptacle, or it may 
be represented by a minute round knob where the involucres meet, 
but it has no stomata. The involucres have chambers in their tissue 
which, however, open irregularly only inwards by large holes (Fig. IX), 
as is the case in Sauteria. 1 The involucres are directed upwards. 
Not more than five ripe sporogonia were found in any receptacle, 
though eight involucres were counted in many. In some cases only a 
single ripe sporogonium was present. The sporogonium has a well 
developed foot, and the capsule, which is fully exserted and directed 
upwards, has a long seta. The latter may be up to 1*5 mm. in 
length. The calyptra is thin and is ruptured into two pieces by the 
growing sporogonium. The capsule wall is formed by a single layer 
of cells which are strengthened by simple U-shaped hands on the 
inner and radial walls. The outer walls are quite thin (Fig. 6, X, 
XI). The spores are brown, tetrahedral and covered with numerous 
obtuse papillae on the surface. They appear reticulate in a surface 
view but the papillae project from the margin and give the latter a 
toothed appearance. They are 65 to 70/x in diameter. The elaters 
are trispiral, sometimes branched, and 140 to 200/x long. At the 
apex of the capsule are some short elater-like cells attached to the 
inner surface and hanging into the cavity. They are spirally or 
annularly thickened,and the bands sometimes anastomose irregularly 
(Fig. 6, XII). A few similar elater-like cells, but only annularly 
thickened, are also attached to the base of the capsule projecting 
upward into the cavity. The capsule dehisces by four or five valves 
to the base. The valves are ultimately reflected backwards so as 
to touch the seta. 
The plant resembles Sauteria in the structure of the male and 
female receptacles, but is nearer Clevea in the dorsal position of the 
female receptacle and the structure of the capsule. 
GOLLANIELLA PUSILLA St. (Fig. 7). 
Stephani described a plant from Mussoorie under the above 
name in 1905 (Hedwigia, Bd. 44, p. 74). The writer has collected 
specimens from that place which answer to Stephani’s description 
in most respects, but differ in a few points. Moreover, as the 
writer was able to clear various details in the structure of the plant 
' Leitgeb, “ Untersuchungen fiber die Lebermoose,” Heft 6, Taf. 2, Fig. 11. 
