Riccardia multi-
and Pears. Ex.
var. a major, Nees.
On rocks in streams.
var. /? antbrosioides, Nees.
fid a V. ambrosioides, Carr.
No. 63.
Running among wet moss.
var. filiformis, Nees.
Growing in loose balls in boggy places.
Generally growing in thickly-crowded tufts.
Fronds 4 to H inch long, half to three-quarters line
broad, compressed, erect or decumbent, always
branched, but variously (fig.
183), often twice or thrice
divided irregularly, with
narrow laciniæ, at other
times pinnate or bipinnate,
pinnæ distant, alternate,
spreading or horizontal, beset
with remote pinnules,
obtuse at the apex, rarely
emarginate, fleshy, succulent,
pale green. Calyx
short, slightly attenuate at
the base, mouth expanded and laciniate. Calyptra
oblong, widening gradually to the apex, yellowish
white. Capsule oblong, brown, striate. Elaters
simple, attached at the apices of the valves.
Aneura pinnatiflda, Mes.
Frond procumbent, linear, pinnatifid.
branches horizontal, broader at the apex,
pinnatifid or dentate, obtuse ; perichæt ium
campanulate, mouth laciniate ; calypt ra c yl indrical,
even, downy.
Jungermannia pinnatiflda, Ne e s in Mart. FI.
Bras. p. 327. A n eura pinnatiflda, Dumort.
Rev. Jung. p. 26 ; C o o k e Hep. f. 175-
var. sinuata, Dicks. Crypt . IL, p. 16 ; Eng.
Bot. t. 147Ó. Ra the r more branched, digitate-
palmate.
Jungermannia multifida ¡3 sinuata. Hook.
Br. Jung. t. 45. A n eu ra sinuata, Dumort.
Comm. p. 1 15. Riccardia sinuata, Carr, and
Pears. Exs. No. 60, 61.
Near waterfalls and mountain streams.
It is recorded of the form sinuata that _ the
fronds are larger and flatter than in A . multifida,
as well as somewhat more compound, with unequally
cloven extremities, while the fructification
is smaller and more scattered.— i f fg - P f f
Aneura palmata, Hedw.
Frond rosulate, ascending, digitate-palmate ;
segments linear, unequal; perichæt ium median;
calyptra clavate, tuberculate.
Jungermannia palmata, Hedw. Theor . t. 20,
f. 3-7, t. 21, f. 1-3. A n eura palmata, Dumort.
Comm. 11 5 ; Cot t . and Rab. Exs. No. 43, 463.