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CRY PTOG AMIA Algae,
G en. Char. Male flowers sessile.
Capsule on a stalk rising from a sheath, of 4 valves.
Seeds attached to elastic filament^.
Spec. Char. Stems branched, creeping. Leaves alternate,
roundish, concave, entire, without auricles»
Sheaths turbinate, with five angles,
T h i s very beautiful little Jungermannia was found by Mi.
Lyell in the New Forest, growing on the hark of holly and
ash trees near the ground, bearing fruit, which is rare and
very short-lived, in April and May, We presume it to be
nondescript, and its discoverer is certainly entitled to the
praise of great acuteness of observation.
The stems often creep over other species of the same genus,
from which this is distinguished by its lighter and brighter colour.
They are very slender, much branched, and leafy.
Leaves alternate, rather distant, sessile, roundish, concave,
entire, destitute of auricles or stipulas. Sheaths axillary, solitary,
much larger than the leaves, turbinate or top-shaped,
with 5 prominent keels or angles, smooth, accompanied by a
pair of bracteas at their base. Fruitstalk and capsule pale
brown, or almost white.