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JUNGERMANNIA cochleariformis.
Spoon-leaved Jungermannia.
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CRYPTOGAM1A Hepatic#.
Gen. Char. Male flowers sessile. Anthers stalked.
Capsule on a stalk, rising from a sheath, of 4 valves.
Seeds attached to elastic filaments.
S pec. Char. Nearly upright. Leaves two-ranked,
imbricated, folded together, roundish, concave,
somewhat toothed. Auricles pouch-like, oblong.
S yn. Jungermannia cochleariformis. Weis Gott. 123.
With. 8/6.
J. purpurea. Scop. Cam. v. 2. 347. Lightf. 778.
Hull. 279.
Mnium jungermannia. Linn. Sp. P/. 1579* Huds.
Li.c4h‘e3n-astrum alpinum purpureum, foliis auritis et
cochleariformibus. Dill. Muse. 479> £.69. ƒ■ 1 .
L. trichomanis facie praelongum, foliis concavis unam
partem spectantibus. Raii Syn. 1 1 2 .
A s our 1 .1023 proves only an alpine purple variety of nemorosa|
see p. 2498, we have obtained the intended plant, gathered by
Miss Hutchins near Bantry; and at the same time we restore the
original name given by Weis, whose prior authority we did not before
perceive, owing to Withering’s neglect of reference to him.
This is a very fine and remarkable species, sometimes a span
high or more, forming dense tufts in alpine bogs, and being
mostly simple, clothed entirely with purple or brownish leaves,
imbricated in two rows, but all directed to one side. Their form
is roundish, but irregular, concave, unequally toothed, chiefly at
the extremity. Each is accompanied at its base by an oblong
pouch-like appendage, akin to those of J. Hutchinsice, i. 2480,
and tamariscina, t. 2481, but mostly, though perhaps not always,
distinct, so that it may well be termed an auricle. The younger
plants have flatter leaves, without such accompaniments. We
lament having never seen the fructification, of which Dillenius
was likewise ignorant, Linnaeus had no pretence to make this
plant a Mnium.