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JU N G E RM A N N IA H T A L IN A .
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JraoE iMAHHU, caule ascendente, flexuoso, dichotomo: foUls crccto-paleulibus, rotundatis,
suhundula tis: fru c tu te rm in a li; calycibus ovatis, an g u la tis ; ore contracto, quadndentato.
Jungermannia hyalina. L y e l l , m . s. s.
H a s . Boggy places iu th e New Forest, H a n ts .; and among th e rocks immediately above
Stock-gill Force, a waterfall n e a r Ambleside. Mr. ty c ii.— Sefing mountain, near D ublin.
D r . Taylor.— ( i t bears fm it in th e early sp rin g months.)
PUXT forming broad tn fts o t a deep green : - i f unexamined, i t m ig h t he easily passed by as
J . undulata in a dwarf state, th o u g h its shining and glassy appearance is likely to a ttra c t the eye
o f th e Botanist, who is a t all conversant with the genus.
Baoto dense, simple, pellucid fibres, proceeding generally from th e whole len g th o f th e
un d e r side o t th e stem, which la tte r, as well as th e roots, is of a deep purple.
Stem e ithe r wholly procumbent, o r, as is much m o te frequent, ascendant in th e greater p a rt
o f its len g th , simple, o t much branched w ith innovations, so as to look dichotomous,
L oana (f. S) bifarious, ra th e r distantly placed, e rect or e recto-patent, loosely imbricated,
round, embracing th e stem, and in places often concealing i t ; th e ir lerlBrc extremely
thin, membranous, shining and subdiaphanous ; th e ceUulo, round, th e m a rgina l row
being la rg e s t; color a deep b r ig h t green. , . .
Perigonial leaves (f. 3) situated ne a r th e extrem ity of the stem, undulated like the rest, and
differing in no respect, b u t in having a swollen o r ventricose base.
T h e Pericluetial leaves (f. 9 ), which sometimes extend ta r below the apex of the stem, enlarge
upwards from tlie ir base, so as to be broadly ovate, and a re also undulated.
M a m F a uCTiEICATioN ( f. 3 ) in th e a x illæ o t th e p e r ig o n i a l le av e s.
Anthers spherical, o t a pale, olive-brown color, re ticula ted, placed upon a short white
footstalk.
F ïm a l e FIIUCTIPICATIOX ( t f. 6 . 7 . 9 ) te rm in a l u p o n t h e s tem s .
Calyr (f. 9) ovate, broad a t th e base, bluntly angular, th e nwuth contracted, cu t into
four teeth.