Handbook of British Hepaticae : containing descriptions and figures of the indigenous species of Marchantia, Jungermannia, Riccia and Anthoceros . emarginatelybidentate, or tridentate, with themiddle tooth largest or multi-dentate (fig. 105). Stipules free,small, bifid, furnished with a smalltooth sometimes about the base ;fruit terminal, perianth prismatic,the angles without wings, mouthlaciniate, laciniae toothed, bractslarger, many toothed at the apex,sometimes with the dorsal margin serrate ; invo-lucral stipules ovate and bifid. Lophocolea heterophylla, Schr. Stem ascending, branched, lea
Handbook of British Hepaticae : containing descriptions and figures of the indigenous species of Marchantia, Jungermannia, Riccia and Anthoceros . emarginatelybidentate, or tridentate, with themiddle tooth largest or multi-dentate (fig. 105). Stipules free,small, bifid, furnished with a smalltooth sometimes about the base ;fruit terminal, perianth prismatic,the angles without wings, mouthlaciniate, laciniae toothed, bractslarger, many toothed at the apex,sometimes with the dorsal margin serrate ; invo-lucral stipules ovate and bifid. Lophocolea heterophylla, Schr. Stem ascending, branched, leaves accum-bent, quadrate-rounded, entire, emarginate orobtuse; perichaetial leaves external, two orthree lobed, dentate; stipules dissected ;perianth terminal, mouth cristate. Jungermannia heterophylla, Schrad. 1S01, p. 66; Hook. Br. Jung. No. 31 ;Mart. Erl. p. 140, t. 3, f. 12. Jungermanniabicuspidata, Eng. Bot. t. 281. Lophocoleaheterophylla, Dumort. Rev. Jung. p. 17; Pears. Exs. No. 36; Cooke Hep. f. no,112. On trunks. (Fr. Early Spring.) Growing in small loose patches, often amongst 152 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH moss. Stems procumbent, 4 to | inch long, flexuous, extremity with the bran-ches erect, pale more or lessclose, in two oppositerows, horizontal, plane orslightly concave, round-ish ovate, half embracingat the base,and decurrent,variable at the apex (,after Martius). Thosenearest the base acutelydivided one-fifth downinto two acute segments,slightly divaricate. Thosein the middle obtusely emarginate, segmentsobtuse. Those near the apex entire and all are nearly entire , pale green. Perichsetial leaves remark-ably variable, in some they are entire, in othersbifid, and entire, whilst others have the thirdpair obtusely emarginate, the second pair deeplyemarginate, with acute points, and the first pair,varying with two or three acute ovate segments,unequally toothed. Stipules adpressed, oblon
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