JUNGERMANNIA sinuata.
Jagged Jungermannia.
CRYPTOGAMIA Algce.
Gen. Char. Male flowers sessile.
Female on a footstalk rising from a sheath. Caps.
with 4 valves. Seeds attached to elastic filaments.
Spec. Char. Stem none. Frond bipinnatifid, flat,
sinuated, its extremities unequally two-lobed. Fruit-
stalks shorter than the fronds.
Syn. Jungermannia sinuata. Dicks. Crypt, fasc. 2. 16.
With. 869. Hull. 282. •
Lichenastrum chamsedryos multifidae divisura. Dill.
Muse. 511. t. 74. f . 44.
Ulva palustris, foliis ivse moschatas instar divisis. Dill,
in Raii Syn. 64.
G a t h e r e d by S. Hailstone, Esq., last April, at Elm
Crag well, in Bellbank wood, near Bingley, Yorkshire, the
very same place from whence Richardson originally sent it to
Dillenius; but the latter never saw the fructification, and
Hudson omitted the plant entirely, perhaps thinking it not
distinct from J. multifida, t. 186.
The fronds are larger and flatter than in that species, as well
as somewhat more compound, with unequally cloven extremities,
while the fructification, on the other hand, is
smaller, and more scattered. We find no other material
distinction.
When moist, the plant has the fine aromatic scent which
belongs to’many of its genus, and of which we have spoken
at t. 605. This our highly valued friend Mr. Wood, who
found the J. sinuata near Leeds, has also remarked. See
Withering.
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