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Plants in straggling, prostrate, pale patches. Stems 
searcely 1 inch long, but slightly and irregularly branched. 
Leaves touching one another at their bases, rounded at their 
tops or with a very shallow indentation, nearly patent, the 
opposite pairs joined behind the stem by the ovato-lanceolate 
bifid stipule. Perichetium nearly as long as the calyx, its 
leaves upright, adpressed. Calyx acutely trigonal, having a 
considerable fissure down one side. The present may be 
distinguished from our Jung. reclinans by the far larger and 
less imbricated leaves, by the stipule being simply bifid, (not 
quadrifid) and by its connecting the leaves behind the 
stem. 
10. J. alternifolia, n. sp.; caule implexo procumbente vage 
ramoso, foliis laxis alternis patentibus planis triangulari- 
ovatis emarginatis decurrentibus segmentis spinoso-acumi- 
natis cæterum integerrimis, stipulis minutis quadripartitis 
segmentis setaceis, calyce terminali triangulari cylindraceo 
ore trilabiato ciliato. 
Has, New Zealand. 
Patches dark lurid-green, shoots nearly straight. Leaves 
with large cells, decurrent, so that the base of one passes the 
upper insertion of the one next below. Perichætial leaves 
about half the length of the calyx, erect, concave, subciliated. 
Capsule roundish-oblong. Related to our Jung. humifusa, 
(vol. 3, P. 472) ; the emargination of the leaves, however, 1s 
more deep, their segments longer, their bases more decur- 
Tent, and the segments of the stipules wider. 
It may be here noticed of our Jung. humifusa, that the 
calyces and perigonia have been observed, since the publica- 
tion of that species, on Kerguelen’s Land specimens. The 
former are oblong-ovate, trigonal, one of the angles alate, 
subdentate. The perigonia are ovato-lanceolate spikes, which 
Occur in the course of a shoot, each ventricose imbricating 
containing an anther. 
(Chiloscyphus, Nees.) Ev 
n. J. retusata, n. sp.; caule implexo procumbente subsim- 
