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CRYPTOGAMIA Hepalicce.
G en. Char. Male flowers sessile.
C a p s u l e on a stalk rising from a sheath, of 4 valves.
S e e d s attached to elastic filaments.
Spec. Char. Shootscreeping, branched. Leaves in
two rows, spreading, crowded, ovate, toothed, with
an inflated side-lobe. Scales cloven, acute. Sheaths
in the forks of the branches, inversely heartshaped.
S yn. Jungermannia Hutchinsiae. H o o k e r B r i t . J u n g ,
t. 1 . / A . s
D is c o v e r e d by the ingenious lady whose name it hears, at
“ Glengariff, near Bantry; along the banks of the first river, as
you go from Bantry above the water-fall; and in gloomy caverns
by the side of other mountain rivulets.”
The stems compose dense imbricated patches, of a dark or
blackish green, some inches broad, and are repeatedly branched.
Leaves crowded, spreading in two rows, flat, ovate, acute,
strongly toothed, each furnished at one side near the base with a
very singular, obtuse, inflated, pouch-like side-lobe, or auricle .
we have preferred the former term, because in the Linnsean phraseology
an auricle ought to be a distinct leaflet. Our able friend
above quoted uses the latter expression, because the part in
question is here so very peculiar, and so unlike a common lobe.
The sheaths spring from the forks of the branches, accompanied
by two cloven, toothed bracteas, and are obcordate, with a
longitudinal ridge at one side. Veil, or corolla, concealed by
the sheath. Fruitstalk about twice the length of that part.
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