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JUNGERMANNIA connivens.
Forcipated Jlingermannia.
CRYPTOGAM1A Hepaticce.
Gen. Char. Male flowers sessile.
Capsule on a stalk rising from a sheath, of 4 valves,
Seeds attached to elastic filaments.
S p e c . C h a r . Shoots branched, creeping. Leaves in
two rows, ovate, rather concave, cloven, with
acute, forceps-like points. Sheaths cylindrical,
elongated, many-toothed, terminating very short
lateral branches.
Syn. Jungermannia connivens. Dicks. Crypt, fasc. 4.
19. t. 11. ƒ. 15.
(jrATHERED by C. Lyell, Esq., upon Sphagnum latifo-
lium, in a small bog at the north-east corner of Furzy-lawn
inclosure, New Forest, in April last.
The whole plant is very delicate, entangled amongst the
Sphagnum, and nearly agreeing with its pale whitish-green
colour. In many respects this species accords with licuspi-
data, t. 2239, near which it ought to be arranged ; but the
leaves are more rounded, less deeply divided, and remarkable
for the incurvation of their acute segments, which in that respect
imitate a pair of forceps. The sheaths are long and
nearly cylindrical, bordered with many slender pafadlci teeth,
and grow at the ends of short lateral branches, not at the summits
of the main shoot or stem.