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C R Y P T 0G AM 1A Hepaticce.
Gen, Char. Male flowers sessile. Anthers stalked.
Capsule on a stalk, rising from a sheath,of 4 valves.
Seeds attached to elastic filaments.
(Sp e c . C h a r . Upright, wavy, nearly simple. Lower
leaves smallest, ovate, entire; upper roundish-
ovate or squarish, with one or two distant spinous
teeth. Hooker.
Syn. Jungermannia decipiens. Hooker Brit, Jung,
t. 50,
F o u n d on roclts in heathy places abput Bantry in Ireland,
by Miss Hutchins, who sent our specimens to Mr. Turner, and who
at first suspected the plant to be a variety of spinulosa, t. 2228;
but, after three years’ attention to its growth, was satisfied of its
being permanently distinct. No fructification has been discovered.
The roots are threadshaped and creeping. Stems erect, rigid,
slender, wavy, scarcely branched, leafy, composing dense tufts,
from half an inch to an inch and a half in height. Leaves alternate,
rather distant, spreading in two rows, decurrent; the lower
ones very small, upright, ovate, concave, entire; the rest gradually
larger, somewhat quadrangular, acute, furnished with one
or two distant spinous teeth, placed without any regularity. The
upper leaves become gradually smaller, and more elongated.
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