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var. /3* rigen.s. Shoots erect, slender, interrupted,
two or three times innovant from the
upper amphigastria ; leaves adpressed, scalate,
imbricate, ent ire ; amphigastr ia frequent,
subulate.
var. y compressa. Stems short, erect, rigid ;
leaves orbiculate, plane, more c rowded and
compressed near the a p e x ; amphigastria
broadly subulate, patent ; involucral bracts
larger, entire, connivent, pale green.
“ This species may always be distinguished from
other entire-leaved Hepatics by the peculiar
nucleate bodies, of two to four granules, arranged
in a line, contained in the leaf-cells ” (fig. 155).
Nardia g-eoscypha, Not., Lind.
Autoicous. Smal le r than N . scalaris, barren
stems v e r y slender, terete, creeping, radiculose
; fertile stouter, ascending only at the
a p e x ; leaves accrescent, lowe r ones entire
or emarginate, orbiculate; involucral leaves
broader, repand-lobate ; amphigastria rare on
the barren s tems ; upper ones lanceolate,
trifid; involucre immersed, seated at right
angles with the stem, gibbous at its base ;
the cortical la y e r and root lets purple.
Alicularia geoscypha, De Not. A licu lar ia
scalaris, /3 minor, Nees Leb. Eur. I., 281 ;
Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No. 416. Nardia
geoscypha, L in d b e rg Muse. Scan. ; Carr. Br.
Hep. p. 27.
On rocks, &c.
Colour reddish brown or purple, from two to six
lines. Jungermannia Genthiana in size
and colour, but differing in the immersed colesule
and peculiar structure of the involucre. Dr. Carrington
says that the position of the parts may be
better understood if we compare the creeping shoot
to the stem of a clay pipe, the head representing the
involucre, and its tumid base the knob beneath.—
{Plate 5, Jig. 70.)
Nardia compressa, LLook.
Stem erect, branched ; leav es c losely accumbent,
bifarious, orbiculate, ent ire; perichæt
ial leaves kidney-shaped ; st ipules on the
stem none.
Jungermannia compressa. Hook. Br. Jung,
t. 58 ; Eng. Bot. t. 2 58 7 ; Lib. Crypt . Exs.
No. 2 1 1 . Mesophylla compressa, Dumort.
Comm. p. 112. A licu laria compressa, Gott.
and Rab. Exs. 443,472 ; Cooke Hep. f. g,
30. Nardia compressa, Carr, and Pears. Exs.
No. 8, 9, 221.
Borders of mountain rills, or in the spray of
waterfalls. (Fr. Spring.)
Stems ascending or erect, thread-like, flexuous,
H- to 3 inches long, or more, of a pale brown
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