CEPHALOZIA MEDIA Lindb. Medd. Soc. Faun. et Fl. Fenn.
6: 242. 1881.
Cipher/a:71'a multrliora Spruce, On Cephalozia, 37. 1882 (not of Lindb.).
Gametophyte a slender creeping, usually pale green leafy stem; leaves often wider than long, decurrent, slightly imbricate, bifid one third their length with an obtuse or rarely lunate sinus and acute connivent segments; leaf-cells mostly uniform, 36-40 p. in diameter : dioicous; perianth on a very short branch, linear-fusi form, fleshy, formed of three layers of cells at base and two above ; antheridia usually near the apex of a branch. Sporophyte a short-stalked, oblong-cylindric capsule enclosed at first in a fleshy calyptra formed of three layers of cells; spores cinnamon-colored.
One of our most common species growing in large patches on decaying logs and rarely on the ground from Florida to Virginia, California and generally distributed over the northern portion of America ; also European. The species was long confused with
C. connivens (Dicks.) both in this country and in Europe. During this period it was distributed under the original name of Junger rllallllla C011111VellS by Sullivant. Muse. Alleg. 246, and as Cephalo ia by Austin, Hep. Bor.—Am. 57. Lindberg, thinking that this species was the true C. gave to that species the name of C. muItiflonz. Later, Spruce, identifying the true C. con nivoi-s, unfortunately gave the same name (C. mithigora) to the present species. Under this name the species was distributed by us in Hep. Amer. 38 and by NIacoun, Can. Hep. 19* Fortu nately Lindberg, a year earlier than Spruce, had given the species a name that will effectually blot out the confusion arising from the use of the homonym, C. multifionz.