Muscr Exortict.—Thouarsiani. 
JUNGERMANNIA REPANDA, 
Jungermannia caule repente ramoso, ramis erectis, fo- 
lis exacte distichis arcte imbricatis horizontalibus 
oblongo-ovatis planis, basi insigniter decurrentibus 
omnino integerrimis. (Tas. LXXXVI.) 
J.repanda, Sehwaegr. Hist. Muse. Hep. Prodr. 
p. 26. 
Has. In insula Francie, D, Du Petit Thouars. ‘ 
Caulis vepens filiformis foliis plerumque destitutus, ramosus, ra~ 
mis bi-triuncialibus erectis, iterum ramosis, ramulis plerumque 
patentibus, attenuatis. Folia obscure viridia arcte bifariam 
imbricata exacte disticha, verticalia, horizontaliter patentia, 
plana, ovato-oblonga, omnino integerrima, basi inferna insig- 
niter decurrentia, superna subemarginata et undulata, Sub 
stantia minutissime reticulata, 
a 
his species undoubtedly belongs to the same natural family 
of Jungermannie as J. asplenioides, J. spinulosa and J. dicho- 
toma, (Carpolopedium dichotomum of P. de Beauvois,) differing 
from all in the quite entire margins of the leaves, but most re- 
sembling the last mentioned plant. The fructification is unfor- 
tunately unknown, 
Schwaegrichen has placed this plant in his division “ foliis 
dentatis,” but in all my specimens I have observed that the 
leaves are entire, 
Fig. 1, 1, plants, nat. size, Fig. 2, upper portion of a stem 
and leaves, Fig. 3, under ditto. Fig. 4, leaf.—magn. 
