OiiDiK HEPATICiE. 



Suborder I. JUNGERMANIACE/E. 

 Tribe T. JUBULE^. 



Genus 1 . FRULLANIA, Raddi. 



Fndlania, Raddi, Jung. Etr. in Act. Soc. Modena, xviii. p. 20 (1820). 

 Salinatus, Gray and Bennett, Nat, Arr. Br. PI. ii. p. CS? (1H21). 

 Jubula, Duni. Comm. Bot. p. 112 (p.p.) (1H22). 



Plants usually large, rarely small, depresso-ca}spitose and 

 stratified, often pendulous, somewbat firm, colour rarely green, 

 often reddish brown, sometimes almost black, in a few species rosy, 

 rarely shining. Stems firm, terete, opaque, cells small, pinnaiely 

 branched ; branches exactly axillary, more contiguous to the lobe 

 than to the lobule ; true subiloral innovations wanting. Leaves 

 standing on a very small base, rarely half-embracing the stem, 

 almost exactly transverse complicato-bilobed ; antical lobe larger, 

 obli(|uely ovate or suborbiculate, convex, incubous, often at the 

 antical base semicordate, quite entire, very rarely denticulate near 

 the apex ; lobule cucullate, galeiform or saccate (campanulate or 

 digitiform), rarely evolute ovato-lanceolate, bipartite interior seg- 

 ment, the one nearest the stem small or minute, triangular, subu- 

 late or styliform. Cells usually small, in others minute, in a lew 

 medium, almost subequal, globose-hexagonal ; walls thickened, 

 trigones and angles conspicuous. Stipules constantly present, 

 large, but smaller than the leaves, orbicular, oblong or cuneate, 

 base often cordate or cris])ato-auriculate, rarely subdt>current, apex 

 bifid (in a few species entire). Eootlets where present produced 



