CRYPTOGAMIA ALG^. 789 



Each leaf is divided into twQxOr three obtufc or 

 round fegments, a little finuated and crifped on 

 the edges. 

 From the centre of the leaves, out of a red f^ry.r, 

 arifes a fhort, cylindrical vagina, with a quadri- 

 fid rim, out of which grows a pellucid, tubular, 

 filvery, tender peduncle, about two inches high, 

 bearing at the top a gloU.ilar anthem, of a 

 blackifh green colour, which burfts into four 

 roundifli, oval, fmooth fegments, in the centre 

 of which are black, elaftic hairs, exploding a 

 yellowiHi brown powder. 

 Linnaus fancies the anthera (which remains fefille 

 in the calyx for fome time during the Winter, 

 before it fhoots up upon the peduncle in the 

 Spring) to be a piftil, as in regular flowers •, 

 around which may be found, he fays, fome 

 fmaW Jfamina, about feven in number. Flor.fu- 

 ec. No. 1047. 

 The manner in which this plant encreafes, is by 

 fliooting out new leaves from the fegments of 

 the old ones, in the Autumn. Scop, CarnioL no. 

 1351. 



J. acaulis, fronde oblonga finuata pingui. Sp. pi. 



1602. {Michel gen. t. 4./. 2. Pluk. aim. t. 42./. 



i.fine fru5lific, Dillen. mufc- t. 74- /• 42- <^P' 



Vail. Paris, t. 19./. 4.?) 

 Jagged flippery Jungermannia. Anglis. 

 In quaking bogs, mix'd with other molTes. IV". 



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