260 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH HEPATIC.*:. 



Exs. 206, 207. Metzgeria linearis, Moore Irish 

 Hepat. 666. 



In moist situations. 



Plants 10 cm. long, 2\ mm. broad, pallid, 

 yellowish, greenish, or lurid yellow, shining when 

 dry, very pellucid, dichotomous, linear, obtuse at 

 the apex {plate 7, fig. 88), margins much reflexed, 

 nearly meeting, so as to make the stems appear 

 half-round when dry, subelliptic in transverse 

 section, hairs very long, in twos or threes to- 

 gether, spreading widely, and arcuately bent 



This appears to be the M. furcata /3 elongata of 

 Hooker's Jungermanniae, pi. 56, fig. 2. 



Metzgeria eonjug-ata, Lind. 



Autoicous, robust, rather elongated, more 

 or less dichotomous, or irregularly pinnate, 

 or decompound, linear, but narrower in some 

 parts than in others ; antically convex, in 

 transverse section more or less semi-lunar ; 

 hairs longish, singly, or often in pairs on the 

 margin, and divergent. 



Metzgeria conjugata (Dill.), Lindb. Hedw. 

 1876, p. T ; Dill. Muse, t. 74, f. 45, D.E. ; 

 Gott. and an b- Exs. 119, 274/;; Carr. and 

 Pears. Exs°5 ; Lind - Mont - Metz - %• 6. 



On bark.— ^ 7> fig- 8 9-) 



The paucity hairs and more horny substance 

 of the stems dii? ms ^ tms from any of the normal 



