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JUNGERMANNIA ciliaris.
Ciliated Jungermannia.
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CRYPTOGAMIA Hepaticee.
G e n . C h a r . M a le flowers sessile.
Capsule on a stalk risin g from a slieath, o f 4 valves.
Seeds a ttach ed to elastic filaments.
S p e c . C h a r . , Stems prostrate, p in n a te . Leaves alternate,
two-ranked, convex above, irre g u la rly
palmate, fringed. Sheaths cylindrica l, smooth,
obtuse.
S y n . Ju n g e rm a n n ia ciliaris. Lin n . Sp. PI. 1601.
Dick s. Crypt, fa s c . 2. 14. E h rh . Crypt. 18,
Hull. 281.
J . pulcherrima. L inn. Fil. JVLeth. Muse. 35.
D icks. Crypt, fa s c . 1. 7.
' LichenaStrum scorpioides p u lc h rum villosum. Dill.
M u se . 481. t. 69. ƒ . 3.
M r . DICKSON first discovered this beautiful species, growing
in dry heathy mountainous places in the north. Our specimens
were gathered by Mr. Hooker, but the fructification,
never yet observed in Britain, was taken from the Linnasan
herbarium. -
This is among the larger and most branching of the genus,
growing prostrate in spreading patches, the stems being once
or twice alternately pinnated, and leafy throughout. Leaves
in two ranks, alternate, more or less closely imbricated, curved
downwards, and concave beneath, convex above. Their shape
is very irregular, but always more or less deeply palmate;
their margin exquisitely fringed throughout with jointed hairs,
or rather processes. There are most usually two principal lobes,
one smaller than the other, which perhaps made Linnaeus call
the leaves auricled; and his son, trusting to that definition,
without looking at the authentic specimen in his herbarium,
was led to the strange assertion that his and Dr. Swartz’s pulcherrima
was a totally different plant; which perhaps the wrong
synonym of Dillenius might confirm.—The sheaths of J. ciliaris,
terminating the short branches, are cylindrical, obtuse,
smooth and simple, irregularly jagged at their margin. Fruit-
stalk scarcelyan inch high. The predominant colour of the
plant is a tawny or brownish green.