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JUNGERMANNIA trichophylla.
Hairy Jlingermannia.
CRYPTOGAMIA Hepaticce.
Gen. Char. Male flowers sessile.
Capsule on a stalk rising from a sheath, of 4 valves.
Seeds attached to elastic filaments.
Spec. Char. Stem brauched, creeping. Leaves imbricated
every way, capillary, acute, ternate.
Sheaths terminal, cylindrical, with many capillary
teeth.
Syn. Jungermanma trichophylla. Linn. Sp. PI. 1601.
Huds. 516. With. 882. Hull. 281.
J . sertularioides. Linn. Suppl. 449. Meth. Muse. 35.
t . l . f . 6.
Lichenastrum trichodes minimum, in extremitate
florens. Dill. Muse. 505. t. 73. ƒ. 37.
F o u n d on moist heathy mountainous places, in the North
of England and Highlands of Scotland; communicated by
Mr. Hooker.
The stems are long and capillary, much branched, growing
entangled among mosses, from which they are discernible by
their lighter colour, as well as by a mucor-like appearance
caused by their minute pale capillary leaves. The latter are
imbricated every way, but stand three together, of equal
length, moderately spreading, acute, finely jointed. Sheaths
terminal, much longer than the leaves, solitary, cylindrical,
or slightly inflated, pale, reticulated, their edge fringed with
many, erect, very slender teeth. Fruitstalk half an inch long,
excessively slender and delicate. Capsule of a chesnut brown,
with pointed valves.