terminal leaves purple. Periclimtial leaves similar
closcly aclin-esscd to tlie cal}’x, the calyx obovate'
laterally comprc.sscd, with four longitudinal angles,’
which are prominent and acute when mature, mouth
contracted and irregularly toothed. Capsule ovate,
shining brown, longitudinally and transversely
furrowed. Elaters bispiral.
Aplozia gracillima, Sm., Dum.
Stem creeping, fertile branches erect, leaves
alternate, remote, amplexicaul, rounded ovate,
concave, rounded marginate ; st ipules none •
perianth terminal, cylindrical.
gi'acillima,\Jungermannia Sm. Eng. Bot.
t. 2238 ; Carr. Trans . Bot. Soc. Edin. V I I . ,
4 4 7 ; Carr, and Pears. Exs. 248, 249 ; Cooke
Hep. fig. 60. A plo z ia gracillima, Dumort,
Hep. Eur. p. 57. Jungermannia crenulata /3,
Hook. Br. Jung. p. 37. Jungermnnnia Gcri-
flnana, Hubn. Hep. Cerm. 10 7 ; Cot t . and
Rab. Exs. 68, 115, 384.
On the ground.
nearly so small as Lejeunia minutissima, and
differing in the stem, clasping leaves, and more
essentially m its perianth, which is terminal, C3'lindri-
cal, obtuse, surrounded by several imbricated
leaves, which are larger than the rest,
and these as well as the perianth tinged with
red. Stems very slender and pellucid,
branched, creeping, somewhat zig-zag,
clothed with small scattered pellucid
apparently fleshy, leaves, of a roundish 121.
concave undivided figure (fig. 121), always more or
less embracing the stem with their base, and destitute
of aip’ appendages.— {Plate 4, fig. 60.)
Dr. Carrington writes that ; “ Hooker describes
this as not differing from A . crenulata except in size,
but all the specimens I have examined arc destitute
of the conspicuous border cells, and the perianth
is not compressed.”
Aplozia lanceolata, L., Dum.
Stem creeping, simple, leaves accumbent,
oblong-elliptic, rounded, ent ire; st ipules none ;
perianth cylindrical, arcuate, apices depre s s
ed ly plane.
Jungermannia lanceolata, Linn. Sp. 1 5 9 7 ;
Hook. Br. Jung. t. 28 ; Carr, and Pears. Exs.
No. 170. Liochlcena lanceolata, Ne e s Gott.
and Rab. Exs. No. 94, 438 ; Cooke Hep. f.
108. Aplozia lanceolata, Dum. Hep. Eur. 59.
Woods and moist shady places.
Growing in small den.se clusters of a pale-green
colour. Stems f to
^ inch long, procumbent,
simple, or
now and then with
one or two short lateral
shoots. Leaves
rather close, always
spreading or hori-
z o n t a l , e n t i r e ,
ovate, with a broad
and half-embracing
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