:q cryptogamia algm. 



Small creeping dented Jungermannia. Angiis. 



In damp fhudy places, and on rotten wood. IV. 



The ftalks are branched without order, procum- 

 bent, and creeping, Ihooting out radicles at the 

 end and other parts of the nerve. The leaves 

 are nearly fquare, plain, very minute, pellucid, 

 divided at the top ineo three or four dents, 

 hardly vifible without a microfcope, growing 

 alternately and clofcly pinnate in the moift plant, 

 but opake, deflex'd, and imbricated in the dry 

 one. On the under fide are amx'd to the nerve 

 a double feries of other leaves, of auricles, a 

 little Imaller than the preceding, but dented, 

 and of the fame figure. 



The fruclifications are copious, and produced at 

 the bale of the ftalk, or in the centre of the 

 plant. The vagina is trianj;ular, white, and 

 denticulated at the top. The peduncles pellu- 

 cid ar.d fiivery. The cither a black and lliin- 

 ing. 



This is one of the lej: of the genus, but may 

 be readily difcovered by its dented leaves and nu- 

 merous frudlificarions. 



*■*•■* Frondihus itnhricatls, 



'cn:j)knala J. furculis repentibus, foliolis inferne auriculatis 

 15. duplicato-imbricatis, ramis a^qualibus. Sp. pi. 



1599. {Mich.grn. t- sf- 2^- Dillen. mufc, t. 72. 

 /. 26. cpi.) 



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