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Cephalozia

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CEPHALOZIA Jungennannia Sullivantiae Aust. Bull. Torr. Hot. Club, 3: 12. 1872. (Not). Sa!liyantii Aust. Proc. Acad. Phila. for 1869: 221. 1869.) Gametophyte a short, close-creeping, sparingly branched stem ; leaves whitish, usually spaced, about 0.3-0.35 mm. long, two-thirds as wide, strongly narrowed just above the base, somewhat ovate, erect, spreading or nearly horizontal, bifid to one-half or two-thirds their length, with obtuse sinus and acute usually divaricate divi sions; leaf cells 25-30 p in diameter ; dioicous ; perianth at the end of a very short branch, obovate-oblong, 1.2-1.5 mm. long, the

mouth deeply 10-cleft ; involucral leaves mostly bifid with a large tooth on the outer margin near the middle or towards the base. Sporophyte a short-stalked mostly short oval capsule; mature spores not seen.

Apparently an uncommon species, seen only as yet from Ohio, whence it was distributed by Sullivant : Muse. Alleg. 241 (as Jungennannia bicuspkiata, var. 2); Austin also reported it from Illinois, but I have seen no specimens. The name is unfortunately too near C. Sitilivaniii and may need change to prevent confu sion.