I figlilands, in moist situations, (p'r. Ant.)
Growing in dense tiifts, i or 2 inches across, of
blackish appearance. Stems i or 2 to
3 inches long, flexible, erect, simple or
more frequently irregularly dichotomous,
branches simple, or with one or
two lateral shoots. Leaves bifarious
rather distant, erect, or a little spreading,
loosely imbricate, cordate, concave,
margins embracing and concealing the
stem (fig. 124), thin and membrana-
ceous, dark olive, or blackish green,
.sometimes tinged deep purple. Peri;
chætial leaves like the cauline ones.
Perianth oblong-ovate, lengthened at
the base or fusiform, slightly plicate
above, mouth small and indistinctly
toothed, terminal and axillary.
Aplozia lurida, Dumort.
Stem creeping, fruit-bearing, ascending,
leaves incumbent, rounded, entire, super ior
c losely imbr ica te ; per ichæt ial leav es v e ry
broad, st ipules none. Per ianth terminal
ovate, dentate. ’
Jungermannia scalaris, Web. and Mohr.
C rypt , p. 419. Jungermannia pumila, Lind.
Syn. Hep. 69, t. 2. Jmgermannia nana,
Nees Lur. Leb. 1 3 1 7 ; Gott. and Rab. Exs
287, 512; Cooke Hep. f. 63, 64. Jungermannia
lurida, Dum. S y ll . Jung. p. 50 • Ca r r
and Pears. Exs. No. 166. Aplozia lurida,
Dumort. Hep. Eur. p. 60.
“ Stems cæspitose, i to 4 i'lch long, innovations
arising below
t h e a p e x , slender,
terete. Stems ascending
or erect, pale green,
clothed with white
radicles; branches slender
; leaves round or
roundish-ovate ( fig.
126), erect, clasping;
perianth obtuse, plic
a t e , quadrangular
(fig. 125); mouth small,
four - toothed, capsule
globose. Cells large, '^5- 126.
pellucid, those of the margin somewhat larger.”
Possibly not distinct from Aplozia splmrocarpa.
Aplozia sphserocarpa, Hook., Dum.
Stem ascending, simple, leaves rather re mote,
accumbent, orbicular, entire ; stipules
none, perianth terminal, cyl indr ical ly ovate,
quadrifid.
Jungermanyiia sphcerocarpa. Hook. Br. Jung.
No. 74; Gott. and Rabh. Exs. No. 186; Carr,
and Pears. Exs. No. : 67 ; Co o ke Hep. figs.
Ó5, 66. Aplozia sphcerocarpa, Dum. Hep. Eur.
p. 61. ’
In damp places. (P'r. Early Spr.)
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