. CEPHAI.OZIA DIVARICATA (Sm.) Dumort. Hep. Europ. 89. 1874.
Jungermannia divaricata Smith, Engl. Bot. p1. 719. 1800. JangermanaM byssacea Roth, Fl. Germ. 3 : 387. 1800. jungermannia cofovoides Raddi, Mem. Soc. Mod. 18 : 29.
f. 1. 1820.
Jungermannia Starkii Funck ; Nees, Europ. Leberm. 2: 215, 225. 1836.
Jungermannia Jack; Gott. et Rabenh. Hep. Europ. No. 56.
Gametophyte a slender green olivaceous or almost black, leafy stem with leaves scarcely wider than its diameter ; leaves mostly spaced, especially on sterile stems, cleft about half-way to the base, the lobes complicate or divergent, acute ; underleaves mostly wanting : dioicous; perianth linear or narrowly fusiform, sometimes purple toward the base, prismatic, 3-6-angled, the mouth somewhat constricted, denticulate or nearly entire ; invo lucral leaves larger, more or less connate, bifid, the lobes denticu late. Sporophyte an oblong-globose capsule on a short seta.
On sand and rocks and occasionally on rotten wood, New Jersey to Labrador, and on the Pacific coast from California northward ; also European. It was distributed by Austin in Hep. Bor. Am. 51, 52, 53, 54; and in Hep. Amer. 155.
The species has been well figured. Besides the figures of Smith and Raddi, noted above, the more important are Hooker. Brit. Jung. pl. 12 and Ekart, Syn. Jung. Germ. pl. f. 31.