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JUNGERMANNIA NOBILIS.
tlungermanma, caule suberecto flexuoso ; foliis arete
bifariam imbricatis borizontailbus insequaliter bilobis,
lobis ovatis ciliato-dentatis conduplicatis verticalibus,
stipulis rotundatis emargiiiatis elliatis ; calyce oblongo
compresso, ore laciniato, laciniis ciliato-dentatis.
(Tab. X I.)
H a b . Diisky Bav, apud Novara Zeelandiaui. D. Menzies, 1791.
Caulis palmaris ad spithainaeuin, ¡lenna covvin» crassitie, siib-
lignosus, uigro-fuscus, flexuosus, inferne procumbens, denu-
datiis, atque snliramosus, radicibus tomentosis fuscis obsitus,
superne erectus, foliosus. Folta maxima hujusce generis,
dense bifariam imbricata, horizontalia, flavo-virescentia,
reticulata, areolis parvis oblougis, iiiequaliter biloba, lobis
anterìorihus majoribus, omnibus ovato-sabacuminatis, flexuo-
sis, conduplicatis, verticalibus, dentato-ciliatis, ciliis basi superne
longioribus. Stìpulce majusculse, rotundat», pianse,
apice emarginata;, marginibiis ciliatis. Quod autem in hoc
specie pr»ter spem evenit, foliorum siiigulorum ad axillas re-
periuntur folióla quatuor aut plura perpusilia, rigidiuscula, dentata,
erecta, in csespitulum ajipressa, qu» aii floribus masculis
includendis an cuilibet alii usui iuserviaut iiihil sane comper-
tum babeo, nec licet aliqiiid certe augurar!. Calyx, ratione
pianta;, parvus, foliis fere obtectus, oblongus, paululum longi-
tudinaliter plicatus, ore aperto, laciniato, laciniis ciliato-den-
tatis. Seia vix uncialis, succosa, alba. Capsula oblonga, fosca,
quadrivalvis, valvis linearibus.
This noble species has the lower part of the stem resembling
the creeping stipes of many Ferns, and is equally black and rigid.
The superior part alone is leafy, and the leaves are not much unlike
those of some of the varieties of J . nemorosa-, but the stipules,
which are large and as beautifully ciliated as any part of
the leaves, will keep the two species far removed in an artificial
system. The a.xillary tufts of leafiike processes are confined, as
far as I have had the opportunity of observing, to this species.
Fig. 1, plant 7ial. size. Fig. 2, calyx and leaves. Fig. 3,
portion of the stem, with the stipules, Fig, 4, portion of a leaf
—magn.