;88 CRYPTOGAMIA ALGiE- 



The leaves arc ovaUacutc, fligluly convex, very 

 fmall and numerous, and cover the ftalks all 

 round ; are fomewhat patent in the moid plant, 

 but prelled to the ftalks in the dry, and arc 

 broadeft towards the fummits of the flowering 

 branches. 



The calyx or z'agina is fingular : It grows at the 

 topi of the branches, and is compofed of ob- 

 long concave chefnut-colour'd fcales, refembling 

 the foliaceous gem of a beech-tree. 



The anthers are dark-red, and nearly felTile, be- 

 ing fupported on very fnorc peduncles. The 

 fegments are reflex'd when the plant is dry. 



***■'** Acaiiks frondihus fim-plicihus, •: 



fpsf)lylla22 J- ^caulis, foliolo frondi innato Sp.pL 1602. (Mi- 

 chel. gen t. 4./. i. Oeder. Dan. t. 359. Dillen. 

 mujc.t.j^.f.^i.) 



Broad-lcav'd Jungermannia. Ans,Us. 



On moid fliady banks by the fides of rivulets, 

 arid on wet rocks, as about Rcjiin^ and clfe- 

 where. Dr. Varfons. III. 



This plant has the habit of a Marchantia^ but of 

 a more tender iVibftance, pellucid, and tcflclated, 

 The leaves are about half an inch broad, and 

 lie fiat upon the ground, are fmooth, and of a 

 light green colour on the upper fide, divided in 

 the middle by a black line or nerve j which, on 

 the under fide, emits numerous downy radicles, 

 by \vhich the plant adheres clofelv to the ground 



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