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JUNGERMANNIA PULCHELLA.
Jungemiannia caule elongato erecto subsimplicl, foliis
bifariis disticbis subquadratis quadrilobis pulcberrime
ciliatis, stipulis latis 5-6-lobis ciliatis, calyce terminali
oblongo plicato, ore cibato. ( T a b . XCIV.)
H ab . In sinu Dusky bay dicto, in Nova Zeelandia. D, Menzies,
1 7 9 1 .
Caules laxe cæspitosi, erecti, flexuosi, plerumque simplices, nunc
dichotome divisi. Folia fusco-ferruginea, arcte imbricata,
bifaria, disticha, quadrata vel subrotunda, ad apicem in lobis
quatuor plerumque divisa, atque per omnem marginem pulcherrime
ciliata, ciliis longis divaricatis, articulatis. Substantia
laxa, reticulata, areolis oblongis grandiusculis. Perichcetialia
reliquis similia, sed calyci appressa. Stipuloe magnæ,
lato-quadratæ, 4-6-loba, lobis elegantissime ciliatis. Calyx
terminalis, oblongo-cylindraceus, ad apicem longitudinaliter
plicatus, ore longe ciliato, Se/a subuncialis. Capsula oyata,
4-valvis.
This very elegant plant may be considered to approach nearer
to J . irilobata than to any other species with which we are at
present acquainted, but is at once distinguished from it by its
beautifully ciliated leaves and stipules, which give to the whole
plant, even when seen by the naked eye, a peculiarly tomentose
appearance.
Fig. 1, sterile plants; and Fig. 2, fertile plants, nat, size.
Fig. 3, extremity of a stem with the perichætial leaves and calyx.
Fig. 4, portion of a stem, with leaves and stipules. Fig. 5, stipule.—
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