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Highlands, in moist situations. (Fr. Aut.) 



Growing in dense tufts, 1 or 2 inches across, of 

 blackish appearance. Stems 1 or 2 to 

 3 inches long, flexible, erect, simple or 

 more frequently irregularly dichoto- 

 mous, branches simple, or with one or 

 two lateral shoots. Leaves bifarious, 

 rather distant, erect, or a little spread- 

 ing, loosely imbricate, cordate, concave, 

 margins embracing and concealing the 

 stem (fig. 124), thin and membrana- 

 ceous, dark olive, or blackish green, 

 sometimes tinged deep purple. Peri- 

 chaetial leaves like the cauline ones. 

 Perianth oblong-ovate, lengthened at 

 the base or fusiform, slightly plicate 

 above, mouth small and indistinctly 

 toothed, terminal and axillary. 



124. 



Aplozia lurida, Dumort. 



Stem creeping, fruit-bearing, ascending, 

 leaves incumbent, rounded, entire, superior 

 closely imbricate ; perichaetial leaves very 

 broad, stipules none. Perianth terminal, 

 ovate, dentate. 



Jungermannia sca/aris, Web. and Mohr. 

 Crypt, p. 419. Jungermannia pumila, Lind. 

 Syn. Hep. 69, t. 2. Jungermannia nana, 

 Nees Eur. Leb. 131 7; Gott. and Rab. Exs. 

 287, 512; Cooke Hep. f. 63, 64. Junger- 

 mannia lurida, Dum. Syll. Jung. p. 50; Carr. 



