CEI'HALOZIA CURVIFOL1A (Dicks.) Dumort. Recueil d' Obs. sur les Jung. 18. 1835.
Jungennannth carvifolia Dicks. Pl. Crypt. Brit. 2 : 15. pl. 5,f. 7. 1790.
NowIlia curvifolia Mitt. in Godman, Nat. His. Acores, 321. 1870.
Gametophyte a green or reddish slender creeping leafy axis, sparingly branching ; leaves somewhat orbicular, deeply concave, with two slender incurved teeth widely separated at base and soon becoming one cell wide ; underleaves wanting ; cells isodia metric, 20-25 p. in diameter: monoicous or dioicous ; perianth on a short branch, triangular-prismatic, about 1.3 mm. long, plicate, with the mouth conitrictz:d and short ciliate ; involucral leaves in two or three roxi, deeply bifid with broad serrulate divisions.
Sporophyte a dark brown oval capsule 0.7-0.8 mm. long, on a short seta 0.5-2 cm. high ; spores 6-8 p. in diameter, nearly spherical, dark brown; elaters 250 long, wider than the spores, bispiral.
A very common species on rotten wood distributed from the mountain region of Georgia to Wisconsin and northeastward; also European.
It has been distributed by Sullivant : Musc. Alleg. 242 (as Junge•manllia cuivifolia); Austin : Hep. Bor.—Am. 60; and in Hep. Amer. 17. Several figures exist ; of these, Hooker, Brit. Jung. pl. 15, and Suppl. pl. 1, and Ekart, Syn. Hep. Germ. pl. S. f. 59, are among the best ; that in Smith, Eng. Bot. pl. 1304 poorly repre sents the plant.