J U N G E R M A N N I A minuta.
Minute Auricled Jungermannia.
CRYPTOGAMIA Hepatlcce.
G e n . C h a r . 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 . Stems erect, branched. Leaves two-
ranked, alternate, roundish, acute, with a folded
acute side-lobe.
Sykt. Jungermannia minuta. Dicks. Crypt, fuse. 2 . 13 .
With. 374. Hull. 230.
Lichenastrum pinnulis minutissimis rotundis. Dill,
Muse. 481. t. 69. ƒ. 2.
C o l l e c t e d in the Highlands of Scotland by Mr. Hooker,
but neither he nor any one else has yet met with the fructification.
The slender wiry stems grow upright, among moss, to the
height of an inch or two, and soon become branched. They
are leafy throughout, except at the very base, and somewhat
wavy and spreading. The leaves are extremely minute, uniform,
dull green, spreading in two ranks, alternate, oblique,
acute, rounded at the upper edge, furnished at the lower with
an acute entire auricle, or side-lobe, folded in towards the
leaf.
We have ventured to suggest the propriety of terming the
larger half of the leaf in these auricled species in Latin lohus,
and the smaller one, or auricle, lobuluSy in English perhaps
leaf and side-lobe may be most intelligible. These parts have
not hitherto been well understood or defined by authors.