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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. Shoots branched, somewhat pinnate,
creeping. Leaves imbricated every way, in pairs,
awlshaped, incurved. Sheaths lateral, cylindrical,
with many capillary teeth.
Syn. Jungermannia setacea. Weber. 155. Hooker
Brit. Jung. t. 8.
J . pauciflora. Dicks. Crypt. Jasc. 2. 15. t. 5. f . 9 .
With. 8 /4. Hull. 278.
Lichenastrum multiflorum exile, foliis angustissimis.
Dill. Muse. 481. t. 69. f . 4 ; bad.
C o m m u n ic a t e d by Mr. Turner. It has been found on
bogs in Norfolk and Suffolk, as well as in Ireland, generally
among Sphagnum, on which the stems creep, being branched in
rather a pinnate manner.
This species is nearly related to trichophylla, t. 2252, but
differs in having shorter, incurved, more awlshaped leaves, and
lateral sheaths. Mr. Hooker in his specific character by accident
says “ fructu terminali.”
We gladly submit to the change of the original name, for one
of nearly equal date, and of far more correct and appropriate
meaning, which surely ought to be considered when neither is
become popular.
An anther, with its filament, is shown in our plate. It resembles
that of a Sphagnum.
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