CEPHALOZIA TURNERI (Hook.) Lindb. Acta Soc. Sci. Fenn.
ro : 502. 1875. _jungennannia Turneri Hook. Brit. Jung. pl. 29. 1816.
Gametophyte a prostrate slightly branched leafy stem, 2-5 mm. long ; leaves approximate, equitant, complicate-bifid half-way to the base, the margin everywhere sharply and unequally serrate dentate ; underleaves wanting : dioicous or monoicous ; perianth whitish, 0.3-0.5 num long, pentagonal-prismatic, the mouth almost closed, obscurely ciliolate ; involucral leaves larger than the ordi nary stem-leaves, spinose-dentate, bifid with acute divisions. Spo rophyte and oval capsule on a slender seta; spores dark brown, about 8 ,o in diameter; elaters dark brown, about 200 p long, with two close spirals.
This species was first announced by Mr. M. A. Howe from Marin and San Mateo counties, California,* but a scrap of it had been previously collected (1888) with Polylrichum by Miss M. E. Parsons, of San Rafael, and overlooked in my collection. It is found mostly on the ground and is an interesting addition to our flora. It has long been known in Europe, but does not appear to be common. It was distributed in Hep. Am. 174, from fine ma terial sent by Mr. Howe. The species has been illustrated in Smith, Engl. Bot. p1. 2:510 and in Ekart, Syn. Jung. Germ. pl. 9, f 69 in addition to the citation of Hooker above.
Species dubiae et ittquirettdae.