racters are the arcuate cylindrical perianth, not plicate upwards,
truncate and subumbilicate at the apex. Another character,
taken from the male inflorescence, “ stamina in axillis foliorum
superiorum immutatorum den u da ta appears to be founded
on a mistake; for in the numerous specimens we have examined
we have uniformly found the perigonial leaves to have
their bases hollowed out for the reception of the anthers,
precisely as in most of the true Jungermannice. Liochlcena
does not seem to us to be established on so firm a basis as are
most of the genera in the Synopsis Hepaticarum: some Jungermannice
(e. g. J. Muelleri and corcyracea) have a perianth of
the same form, though not arcuate; but in all other particulars
they stand widely apart from it; and as there is something
peculiar in its habit, it may be allowed to retain the rank of
a separate genus, until the discovery of species more closely
resembling it than any at present known shall either justify
its separation, or render it expedient to mannia.—R. reunite it to Junger- S p r u c e . A portion of the capsule is highly magnified to show the
barred cells.
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