7^4 CRyPTOGAM^A. AhGJE. 



flatyfhylla, J, fr.rculis procumbentibns fubtus irr.bricatis, foli-; 

 *^- clis corciatis acutis. Sp.pl. j6oo, (Mich. gen. t. 



6. f. 3. 4. Fai'. Paris, t. 19. /. 9. Dillen. mtifc, 

 t. yi.f. 17.. opt.) 



Great Arbor virs Jiingermannia. AyigUs. 



About the roots ot trees in fnady woods frequent,, 

 and often at the bottom of walls and rocks, as 

 about Arthur's Seat., occ. III. IV. 



T he ftaiks are about a finger's length, comprefs'd, 

 widely and irregularly branched, nearly ereft, 

 and detach'd from the fubftance on which they 

 grow, lying over one another, {o as to form an 

 imbricated tuft or mat, generally of a deep 

 green, and fometiiDcs a fuicous green colour. 



The leaves are oval-lanceolare, clofely im>bricated 

 in a double feries, alternately difpofed over each 

 other from the riy;ht hand to the left, and from 

 the left to the right, convex on the upper fide, 

 concave on the under, and furnifhed with fmall 

 auricles at their bafe. 1 he nerve appears 

 jointed, being imbricated v/ith fmall fcales. 



The fru6^ifications arife from the extremities and 

 fides of the branches, out of the al^ of the 

 le^ives. 



The vagina are thin, membranaceous and greenifh 

 the peduncles very Ihort j the anthcra greenifh^ 

 black, burfting into four fuicous fegments. 



This is one of the largell: of tlie B'litifo Junger- 

 mcnr.i r. 



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