178 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH HEPATICjE. 



Jungermannia Kunzeana, Hubn. Hep. Germ, 

 p. 115 ; Tayl. Hook. Journ. 1845, 278; Dum. 

 Hep. Eur. 69 ; Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 237, 

 238. Jungermannia - plicata, Hartm. Fl. Scan. 

 II., p. 90 ; Gott. and Rab. Exs. 394. 



On sub-alpine moors. 



Growing in dense olive-brown patches. Stems 

 about 1 inch long, erect, or ascending, simple or 

 dichotomous, attached from the under side by hair- 

 like radicles ; leaves almost vertical, crossing the 

 stem, spreading, roundish, quite entire, all pointing 

 upwards, obtuse, complicate, bifid with a narrow 

 sinus, some near the top trifid, the lacinias obtuse, 

 incurved, reticulate with large areolae ; stipules 

 bipartite, rather rigid, spreading, entire, of the 

 same texture as the leaves ; lacinire lanceolate, 

 divergent, with a few spinous teeth at the base, 

 sometimes one or two above the base. Lateral 

 perichnetial leaves quadrifid. Perianth convex 

 above, deeply channelled below, peduncle four 

 times as long as the perianth. Capsule oblong- 

 ovate. —{Plate 4., Jig. 59. ) 



Jung-ermannia Muelleri, Nees. 



Stem ascending, rather branched ; leaves 

 imbricate, plane, obliquely ovate, emarginate, 

 bidentate ; lacinise straight, acute ; perichaetial 

 leaves ciliately toothed ; stipules two or tri fid, 

 rather ciliate at the base; perianth cylindrical, 

 mouth rostrate. 



