Dr. Taylor on some new British Jungermannise. 11 



Shell ovate, pale yellow ; whorls ventricose, spiniferous, of an 

 uniform colour in the middle, above adorned with a single series 

 of red markings, longitudinal or nearly square, below with two 

 series of smaller spots placed on bands slightly paler than the 

 neighbouring shell ; the last whorl exhibits at its base several 

 series of these articulated bands ; the spines are distant and trun- 

 cated to near their base ; about five occupy the circumference of 

 a whorl, and an angular line connects each with its neighbours ; 

 the spire has scarcely lost more than its extreme whorl by ero- 

 sion ; and the aperture is white, and in a slight degree attenuated 

 at its base. 



17. Melania bellicosa. Testa spinosa, ovata, valde truncata, fusca; 

 anfractibus tribus rotundatis, transversim striatis, spiniferis, fre- 

 quenter erosis ; spinis aculeiformibus, subrectis, ad basin decur- 

 rentibus ; spira apud anfractum antepenultimum truncata ; apertura 

 elongate ovali, subfusca. Axis 9 lin. 

 Hab. Feejee Islands ; in the rivers. 

 Nearly allied to M. spinulosa, Lamarck, which is found in the 



rivers of Timor. 



IV. — Contributions to British Jungermannise. By Thomas 

 Taylor, M.D., F.L.S. &c* 



1 . Jungermannia NiMBosA.Tay/. MSS. Caule laxe caespitoso, erecto, 

 subramoso ; foliis laxis subsquarrosis ; lobo inferiori obovato, sub- 

 acute, patenti, superiori minori, obovato, erectiusculo, subimbri- 

 cato, cauli adpresso, utrisque margine ciliatis, subeonnexis. 

 On the summit of Brandon mountain, county of Kerry, 1813. 



Stems growing up through tufts of Musci, reddish brown, 2 — 

 4 inches long ; leaves, except at the very base, nearly of the same 

 size ; the lower lobe patent or denexed, and so the shoots have a 

 squarrose appearance : their texture is of very minute cells, their 

 cilice distant and large ; the connexion between the upper and 

 lower lobes is very short. 



This was taken for Jung, nemorosa, L., when first brought 

 down from Brandon Hill. It differs, however, by the taller size, 

 the more denexed lower lobes of the leaves, the slight joining 

 between their lobes, and by the more considerable and more 

 distant cilia of their margins. 



From Jung, planifolia, Hook., which accompanied it, the pre- 

 sent is known by the more squarrose leaves, the stronger ciliation 

 of their margins, the more considerable connexion between the 

 lobes, and the more concave and less imbricated leaves. The calyx 



* Read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 9th May 1844. 



