1
fj'l
slender. Perigonial leaves ter-minal. Antheridia
large, solitary, deep green, pedicellate.
G e n u s 9. ANTHELIA, Dinnort.
Perichæt iuin many- leaved, e v e r ywh e r e imbricate
; perichaetial leaves palmate ; perianth
sessile, erect, cylindrical, plicate at the apex,
mouth toothed ; capsule four-valved, coriaceous,
naked ; elaters double, naked, deciduous.—
Dumort. Rev. Jung. p. 18 (1835). Plep.
Eur . p. 97, t. 3,/. 23.
Plants without stipules, leaves transversal,divided,
bipartite or palmate.
Anthelia julacea, Linn.
Stem erect, branched, leaves quadrifarious,
incumbent, ovate, acutely bifid, segments
lanceolate ; perichæt ial leaves e v e r ywh e r e
imbricate, palmate ; st ipules none, perianth
cylindrical, plicate at the apex.
Jungermannia julacea, Linn. Sp. 1601 ;
Hook. Br. Jung. No. 2 ; Engl. Bot. t. 1024 ;
Gott. and Rab. Exs. No. 126, 152, 46 7 ;
Co o ke Hep. f. 103. Anthelia julacea, Dumort.
Rev. Jung. p. 18 ; Carr, and Pears. Exs. No.
3 5 -
In dense patches, in mountainous districts.
vds. gracilis. Hook. Jung. fig. 3 and 15.
(Big. 55.) Stem slender, rather lo n g ; leaves
distant.
Barren stems procumbent, fertile erect | inch to
1 \ inch, dirty brown colour, more or less branching.
Leaves imbricated and adpressed,
concealing the stem, erect, nearly ovate,
flat, acutely cleft about three-fourths of
length into two equal segments, which
are lanceolate, acuminate, margins obscurely
serrate. Perichætial leaves
surround the calyx for nearly a third of
its height, the interior quadripartite, the
exterior resembling those of the stem 55-
but larger. Calyx plicate above, toothed or torn at
the margin and paler. Calyptra ovate, dirty white.
Capsule globose, shining, dark brown. Elaters
bispiral.
Anthelia Juratzkiana, Limpr.
Minute. Stems creeping, branched, branches
short and clavate ; leaves trifarious, deeply
bifid, segments lanceolate ; per ichæt ial leaves
deeply incised and dentate ; perianth deeply
plicate, mouth a little contracted, and dentate.
Jungermannia Juratzkiana, Limpr. Krypt .
FI. Schles . p. 288. Jungermannia julacea v.
clavuligera, G. L. and N. S yn. Hep. 147.
Anthelia Juratzkiana, Limp. 1. c. p. 436.
In alpine regions. (P'r. July.)
Minute, monoicous. Growing in flat dense en