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JU N G E RM A N N IA C A LY PT R IFO L IA .
(TA B . X L I I I .)
J u n g e rm a n n ia , su r c u lo r e p e n te , r am o s o : fo liis b ilo b i s ; lo b is in c e tp ia lib u s ; s u p e rio rib u s m a jo r ib u s ,
c a ly p t r if o rm ib u s ; in f e r io r ib u s o b tu s e q u a d r a tis , c irc um v o lu tis : s tip u lis o b lo n g is sem ib if id is : f ru c tu
l a t e r a l i ; c a ly c ib u s o b lo n g is , s u r s iim q u in q u e d e n ta to ; a p ic e d e p re s so , p ia n o ; o r e c o n tra c to .
H ab. On th e stems o f th e Ulex nana, ne a r th e gro u n d , in heathy mountainous places in
th e neighborhood o f Bantry, intermixed with J . hamatifolia. Miss Hutchins.— Mr. LyeU
finds it g rowing intermixed witlv th e same p lan t upon rocks a t Lowdore.
Tliis singula r P la n t grows in little pale gi-een tu fts , scarcely h a lf ! in c h i n d iam e te r .
T h e roots a re d is tantly scattered about tiie under side o f th e stems, and a re composed
o f extreme ly m inute , whitish, pellucid, simple fibres.
Surculi from one to one and a half, rarely two lines in len g th , creeping, filiform, flexuose,
once or twice divided w ith short, procumbent, p a ten t b ran ch e s : they are o f a jiale
green color, and have th e cellules very visible under a magnifying power.
Th e leaves (f. f. 3. 4. 5) are ra th e r closely placed, bifarious, horizontal, pa ten t, o r erect,
even on th e same individua l; a t th e base of the p lan t the la rge st, thence grailually
lessening towards th e apex o f th e branches, unequally two-lobed, having the superior
one th e la rg e s t (a lthough, from th e crowded mode o f g row th o f th e plant, th e leaf
is n o t unfrequently forced into such a position, th a t it may apjiear to be the inferior
one, as may be seen in f. 2 ) , four-tenths o f a line in length, so precisely the shape
o f th a t so rt o f calyptra in mosses, which Mohr has called “ milriformis," tha t I cannot
do b e tte r, in the specific cha ra c te r, th an designate i t by th e te rm « cabjptriformis.''
In other words, i t may be described as ov ifo rm * , its base narrowed, furnished with
a na rrow opening, which is about one-half th e Icngili o f the leaf, its ajiex lengthened
o ut, incurved and acute ; the lessei- lobe (f. 5) is subquadrate, having tlie angles o b tu s e ;
i t is appressed to the la rg e r one, ha lf embracing it and concealing the opening (F. f. 3 . 4 ).
T h e color, th ro u g h o u t, is a pale yellow-green; th e icxiare delicate; th e ce/iiiics ra th e r
la rg e , roundisli.
• The word oualc having been applied to /f li /fn e d leaves, I oust I shall be excused for adopting a term, by which
neati to express that a transverse section would represent a round figure, as is seen by a similar section of an egg.
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