294 HISTORY OF BRITISH MOSSES. 



Shady banks, and on rocks in moist woods, abundant. 

 Fr. April. A large and easily recognized species. Stems 

 3-6 inches long. 



2. JuNGERMANNiA coRDiFOLiA, Hook. [HeaH-leaved 

 Jungertnannia.) Stems erect, flexuous, dichotomous ; leaves 

 erect, concave, cordate, circumvolute ; fruit terminal and 

 axillary ; perianth oblongo-ovate, subplicate ; the mouth 

 minute, denticulated. — Eng. Fl. jo. 109; Hook. Br. Jung, 

 pi. 32. 



Bog-springs and in boggy ground. Fr. Spring. The 

 foliage is soft and thin, of a dark lurid-green colour. 

 ** Leaves emarginate or Ufid ; the segments equal. 



3. JuNGERMANNiA EMARGiNATA, Ehrh. {Notched Jun- 

 germannia.) Stem erect, branched; leaves loosely imbri- 

 cated, patent, obcordate, emarginate; fruit terminal; pe- 

 rianth ovate, toothed, immersed in the pericha^tial leaves. — 

 Bng. M.p. 110; Eoolc. Br. Jung.pl. 27. 



Ou wet rocks in mountainous districts. Fr. Spring. A 

 distinct species, of a dark purple colour. 



4. JuNGERMANXiA BicuspiDATA, Linn. {Forked Junger- 

 mannia.) Stem procumbent, branched in a stellated man- 

 ner ; leaves subquadrate, acutely bifid, the segments acute, 

 straight, entire; fruit radical; perianth linear, oblong,'lon- 



