Musci Exotic 1.— Menziesiani. 
JUNGERMANNIA FLAGELLIFERA. 
JSungermannia caule erecto pinnatim ramoso, ramis fla- 
gelliformibus, foliis ineequaliter bilobis conduplicatis, 
lobis lobulisque ovato-lanceolatis acutis integerrimis, 
stipulis ovatis acute bifidis basi utrinque unidentatis. 
(Tas. LIX.) 
Has. In sinu Dusky Bay dicto, apud Novam Zeelandiam. 
D. Menzies, 1791. . 
Caulis palmaris et ultra, erectus, rigidus, dichotome divisus, pin- 
natim ramosus, ramis attenuatis, flagelliformibus, simplicibus, 
apicibus denudatis, ramis fructificantibus brevibus, apicem ver- 
sus latioribus. Folia superne subarcte imbricata, horizontalia, 
bifaria, fusco-viridia, inequaliter biloba, lobis conduplicatis, 
anterioribus majoribus, ovatis vel ovato-lanceolatis, acutis, hinc 
quandoque denticulo unico instructis, parum convexis, poste- 
rioribus minoribus, magis lanceolatis, acutis, integris, vel ra- 
rius bifidis (f.4). Sudstantia reticulata, areolis parvis ro- 
tundatis. Perichetialia (f.7) majora, vix conduplicata. 
Stipule ovate, profunde bipartite, basi utrinque denticulo 
grandiusculo instructe, rarius quadrifide (f.5): ramis fructi- 
Jicantilus stipule majores sunt, margine spinoso- dentate. 
Calyces non vidi. 
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This plant will come into the same family with J. platyphylla 
and J. filicina, and may be placed near the latter, though abun- 
dantly distinct from both. I have in my possession a Junger- 
mannia, communicated to me by M. Richard from the Isle de 
Bourbon, that is scarcely to be distinguished from this except by 
the texture of the leaves, which in M. Richard’s plant are curi- 
ously dotted in a similar manner to those of J. Turneri and 
J. Woodsii : but this circumstance, taken in conjunction with the 
very different places of growth and some other peculiarities, has 
determined me to keep the two plants distinct. Of J. flagellifera 
I have only seen very young fructification. 
Fig. 1, sterile plant. Fig. 2, fertile ditto.—mnat. size. Fig. 3, 
portion of the stem with leaves and stipule. Fig. 4, single leaf. 
Fig. 5, stipule. Fig. 6, stipule from among the perichetial 
leaves. Fig. 7, perichetial leaf. Fig. 8, portion of a leaf to show 
the reticulation.—magn. 
