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JU N G E RM A N N IA M IN U T IS S IM A .
(TAB. L H .)
JUNOMMJNNIA, surculo repente, fflifotmi, flexuoso, vagb ramoso ; toKis distichis, ovato-rotundatui,
ai.pr'a valdO convexis, hic illic laterallthr stibemargmatis, vix bilobis ; stipulis ovato-rotundatis,
bifidis 1 fm c tu latoi-ali; calycibus obovato-rotundatis. pentagonis ; ore contracto, parfim dentato,
Jungermannia minutissima. Engl. Bot. t. 1 6 3 3 .
Jungermannia omnium minima, seu vix conspicua. Serpylli aut Herniariæ fo liis au ritu ,
Jloribus ex albo virescentibus, vaginâ cordiformi. M i c h e l i , N ov. Gen. p. 9. t. 6. f 2 0 .
Lichenaslrum, quod Jungermannia omnium minima, seu vix conspicua, Se rpy lh aut
Herniariæ fo liis auritis, fo r ib u s ex albo virescentibus, vaginâ cordifcrmt. D i l l . Muse,
t. 7 9 . / . 2 9 .
Hab F irs t discovered in this country by Mr. Lyell, growing on the ba rk o t holly and ash
trees, ne a r the gro u n d , in th e New F o re st; b e a r in g tr a it in April and May ; afterwards
found by th e same gentleman more pleiititnlly ne a r Keswick, Cumberland, and upon fir
trees a t Mount Edgecombe. D ev o n sh ire .-U p o n trees a t Henfield, Sussex.
B a ,T e r .- In th e neighbourhood o f B antry. Ireland. Miss H « tcM » s .- I t grows indifferently
upon trees and rocks, and is very common in various p a rts both o t D.vonslime and
C o riiw a ll.-A b o u t th e lake o f Killarney, Ire land, u pon th e tru n k s o t trees. S ir Thomas
Gage, Bart.— Woodlands near Dublin.— D r. Taylor.
P c A u r g r o w in g in p a le h e s . f rom o n e to tiv o o r th r e e in c h e s in d iam e te r , « P P ' / g - .
distaime, lik ! a green sla in, and, even on a nearer approach, it may readily be imsfiik.n for
L r p r a u a g „ „ c h e s , g e n e r a lly im n ied i.a te ly a t
th e b a se o f th e s tip u le s , a n d in sm a ll, w h itis h b u n d le s o t fib res.
.Siircili creeping over each other in an imbricated m a ime r; eaeh individual is / m one to
tivo o r th re e lines lo n g , remarkably slender, filiform, branched, w.th th e b / c h e .
varying in length and direction, simple or again divided. The leriure Is equally delwate
w ith th a t o f th e leaves, composed o f distinct, oblong cellules.