cochleari- 
for’mis,. 
tesembling the leaves in 
: Ae re ae are sacidieh ¢ in others spoon-shaped ; and in 
ha 
CRYPTOGAMIA, HEPATIC. Jungermannia. (C)1) 
base of each larger leaf. om mci cylindrical, white, termi- 
nating. arren stems reddish at the ends, and con aining mi- 
nute greenish globules filled “es a powder. Porticu. Crowd 
wees simple or'branched ; whitish when ~~ ILL. 
Woods and wet shady pees —s April. 
> Sihewhit cylindrical, rather upright’ leafits concave, 
‘roundish. 
Dill. 69.1-Mich 5.16, but more evidently fringed than in 
our plants. 
Leafits pointing from’ 2 opposite lines, ‘ns yd egg-shaped, 
transparent, smooth, embracing the stem, pointed, each furnished 
with a very small earlike appendage. ave never seen any 
other than male plants. Linn. Stems hollow, reddish. Scop. 
about a line in diameter, flat. Potticn. Varies greatly in/ap-’ 
soititeas The young plants in wet places crowded, upr ight. 
Leaves very small, roundish; ‘nearly “flat, * ers alternate, 
without appendages. When older, the leaves arelarger, more 
closely set, convexo-concay ey with scaly apes de at the oe 
In some plants when full 
- gathered on nthe, banks of mountain lakes, I have 
po bel ‘a green, pellu ucid, not crowded, almost embracing 
the stem. Stosts sometimes branched, from | inch to a foo 
when growing in running water. Have not found it in dower: 
requently found it with fertile heads. Huns. 
have found the cane filled with ripe seeds, but closely inve- 
loped by the leaves at the extremity of the plant, and probably 
never rising above the 
Since writing the above I have received a specimen from Mr.. 
Griffith in’ fruit,’ -. fruit-stalk rn than’an ‘inch long. “He 
found it for the first time in this’ state, last summer, W 
rills were dry or Acaely so, and ei concludes. that it only 
flowers in very dry seasons. ° Possibly the es as and deli- 
cate fruit-stalk may be destroyed in rain 
ung. purpurea, Scop. Lightf: and Bobyar arr. jade ii. a 
Fungerma ogs, rivulets, and cascades’in moun 
tainous ohn Sed and in ditches and turfy heaths. On Cader 
Idris, Snows alyder, Dri... [In moist peat earth on , 
of Darteidie Devonshire: Mr, ee aa In all the rills per 
Snowdon. Mr. care P. March—Aug. 
Var. 2. Leafits very ent 
Smaller than the prec SPS Heng green, | not purple. 
Seems to be the variety mentioned by Dill, as essai in bogs. 
Specimens from J, W. SE Esq. 
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