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corresponding to the similarly placed leaf in
Bazzania, Blepharostonia, &.c.—-Spruce.
Jubula Hutehinsise, Hook., Dumort.
S ubp inna te ly branched. Lea v e s ovate,
acute, serrate, plane, aur iculately s p u r r e d ;
involucral leav es de ep ly tw o - lo b e d ; lobes
linear-lanceolate, dentate ; perianth obcordate,
even, compressed.
Jungermannia Hutchinsice, Hook. Br. Jung,
t. I ; Eng. Bot. t. 2480. Frullania Hutchinsice,
Nees Eur. Leb. III., 240; Gott. and Rab. Exs.
208, 4 7 7 ; Carr, and Pears. Exs. No. 50; Cooke.
Hep. fig. 158, 159. Jubula Hutchinsice, Dumort.
Comm. p. 2 1 2 ; Sp ru c e Hep. Ama z . p 61.
In damp places. (Fr. March,
April.)
Forming large bluish-green patches.
.Stems creeping, i inch or H inch
in length, with long scattered
branches. Leaves slightly overlapping,
arranged in two opposite rows, egg-
shaped, with a very minute lobule on
the lower edge, margin toothed (fig. 25), stipules
round at the base
_ and cleft at the
apex into two
J sharp teeth (fig.
A 24). Calyx rev
e r s e ly h e a r t -
shaped, flattened
on the upper surface,
with a longi-
24.
tudinal ridge on the lower,
reddish brown.
Capsule spherical.
25-
“ In various localities along the western coasts
of Fngland and Wales, Scotland and Ireland, it
grows in some abundance and fruits freely. Flse-
where in Europe it has not yet been met with ;
but what are regarded as varieties of the same
species exist in the warmer parts of North
America, and in regions adjacent to the Equator
all round the globe.”— Spruce.
var. /3 compacta, Carr. Stems gracile,
closely imbricated ; leaves smaller, more convex,
in drier places.
G en u s 3. LEJEUNIA, Lib.
Involucre bifoliate ; perianth sessile, ovate,
not caudate, mouth contracted, three-toothed ;
peduncle articulate. Capsule capitate, quadri-
fid half-way, hyaline, membranaceous, s e g ments
bearing the elaters at their apices ;
elaters straight, terminal, persistent, double.—
Lib. A n n . gen. Sci. V . p. 372 (1820).
In this connection the student may consult the
observations of Dr. Spruce on Lejeunia in his
“ Hepaticæ Amazonicæ” (1884), p. 63.
Branches below the axils, contiguous to the
outer base of the leaves. Leaf oblique or almost
longitudinally inserted, for the most part tender,
entire, toothed, or ciliately toothed. Leaflets in
most species obvious, in a few none. Female
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