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 sessile on the turbinate fleshy stalked vaginula; lid flattish, calyptra surrounding the ripe caps, ruptured near the middle; spores as in Andreæa. Infl. monoicous or dioicous. 23.

b. caps. pedicillate; vaginula sessile.

α. caps. cylindrical; lid with a straight beak; calyptra mitriform.

(29) (In part). Caps. erect, regular, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, smooth or striate, lid conical with a longish almost filiform beak; calyptra very large, covering the capsule, fringed at base (peris. when present of 16 teeth, inner of 16 alternating erect cilia). Infl. monoicous or dioicous; barren fl. gemmiform, axillary or terminal. 74.

β. caps. oval, lid with an oblique beak; calyptra dimidiate.

(5). Perennial; leaves of close firm texture, with small dense areolæ; barren fl. gemmiform, in monoicous species placed near the base of perichætium. 31.

(21). Annual or biennial; l. rather succulent, with lax quadrate or rectangular areolæ, the lower ones enlarged. Infl. monoicous; barren fl. near the fertile, naked, or gemmiform with three leaves. 55.

γ. caps. roundish-pyriform; lid obliquely rostrate.

. (12). Perennial; caps. on a very short pedicel; calyptra small, cucullate, scarcely covering the lid; l. channelled, secund. Infl. monoicous; barren fl. gemmiform. 38.