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J U N G E RM A N N I A gracillima.
Slender-branched JungOermannia.
. CRYPTOGAMIA Hepatic*.
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 branched, creeping. Leaves alternate,
clasping the stem, roundish, concave,
entire, without auricles. Sheaths terminal, cylindrical,.
obtuse.
F o r this Jungermannia, which, as far as we can discover,
is a nondescript, we are obliged to Mr. Templeton, who communicated
it nine years ago from the neighbourhood of Belfast.
The same has been observed by the Rev. Mr. Francis on
Edgefield heath, Norfolk, between the two woods.
I t ranges near our minutissima^ t. 1633, but is not near so
small, and grows on the ground; differing in its stem-clasping
leaves, and more essentially in its sheaths, which are terminal,
cylindrical, obtuse, subtended by several imbricated leaves
larger than the rest, and these leaves, as well as the sheath,
are in our specimens tinged with red. The fruitstalk is thrice
as tall as in the minutissima, and the capsule brown.—The
stems are very slender and pellucid, branched, creeping, somewhat
zigzag, clothed with small, scattered, pellucid, apparently
fleshy leaves, of a roundish concave undivided figure,
always more or less embracing the stem with their base, and
destitute of any appendages.