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cate, two-lobed, lobes ovate, acute, denticulate.
Perianth terminal, mouth ciliate.
Jungennannia curta, Mart. Erl. p. 148; Ekart.
Syn. Jung. p. 27, t. 11, f. 89. Scapania curta,
Dumort. Rev. Jung.’ p. 14; Gott. and Rab. Exs.
No. 93, 393, 196, 382 ; Co o ke Hep. fig. 5 2 ;
T a y lo r Trans . Bot. Soc. Edin. II., p. 115.
In old woods on damp rocks.
Stems subciEspitose, shortened, ascending, the
lower leaves much the smallest, rather imbricate,
toothed at the apex, the lower
lobe obovate, nearly plane, the
upper smaller, and acute (fig
96). Lower leaves rather square.
Perianth terminal, compressed,
and fringed at the mouth.
A n extremely variable species.
In Ireland it occurs in a great variety o f situations,
on stones on mountain sides facing the north ;
but its most favourite locality is in old woods on
damp rocks. In some states it resembles T. ne-
niorosa.
var. /3 spinulosa Nees, Gott. and Rab. Ex.
196. Shoots longer, erect, recurved at the
apex; leaves y e l lowish green, more c losely
imbricated; lobes ovate, acute, dis t inct ly spinu-
lose-dentate; inferior lobe convex, s l ight ly
recurved ; lobule obliquely ascending, half as
large.
y rosacea Corda, in Sturm IL, 22, 23,
t. 29. Erecto-procumbent, claret-coloured, innovant,
furcate; leaves approximate, n a r row e r ;
inferior lobe cultriform, sho r t ly cuspidate,
plane, or s l igh t ly c o n c a v e ; lobule about a
third as large, obliquely ovate to cuneiform,
acute, a scending ; margins entire, repand, or
minutely denticulate.
Shoots minute, ascending, simple or innovant,
fasciculate; leaves distichous, approximate, cleft
for half their length into two unequal lobes ; inferior
lobe obliquely obovate, apiculate, nearly plane ;
lobule much smaller, subquadrate, acute, erectly
spreading; margins entire or subdentate; perianth
half-immersed, ovate, compressed, subplicate, apex
truncate, inciso-dentate.— Carrington.
Scapania planifolia, Hook., Dum.
Stem erect, simple, leaves unequally two-
lobed to the base, conduplicate, ciliately
toothed, pos ter ior lobe larger, ovate, anterior
lobe cordate, twice shorter, perianth with
entire mouth.
Jungermannia planijolia. Ho o k. Br. Jung.
No. 67; Eng. Bot. t. 2695. Scapania plani-
Jolia, Dumort. Rev. Jung. p. 14; Carr, and
Pears. Exs. Nos. 162, 2 2 9 ; Cooke Hep.
fig. 50.
Moist rocky places.
Growing in closely crowded patches of a dingy