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JU N G E RMA N N IA polyanthos.
Many-flowered Jungermannia.
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, creeping. Leaves in
two rows,'spreading, slightly imbricated,roundish,
entire, convex. Sheaths lateral.
Syn. Jungermannia polyanthos. Linn. Sp. PL 1597*
Huds. 510. With. 873. Hull. 2 7S .Li ghtf. 773.
Sibth. 309.
Lichenastrum trichomanis facie, polyanthemum
breve et repens. Dill. Muse. 486. t. 70. f . 9*
T h is species of Jungermannia grows in moist shady places
amongst moss, bearing fruit in the spring, usually in great
plenty. It is however not a very common kind. Dillenius had
it from Surry. Our specimen was sent from Ballylickey wood in
Ireland, by Miss Hutchins to Mr. Turner.
The stems creep on the ground, and are repeatedly-branched,
slender, but of a firm rigid texture, clothed with round, entire,
rather convex leaves, spreading in two ranks, slightly overlapping
each other, their base now and then extended into a minute fold
or auricle, pressed close to the stem, but this is not regular nor
constant. We find also a notch in one or two of the leaves, but
that is accidental. The sheaths grow solitary from the middle
part of each branch, and have, as in other species, a few imbricated
notched scales, or bracteas, at their base.