ErcEl'UALUZIA. Kil 



John Noire//. 10. Near Whitby, O. S/<i/j/rr. VI. Na.ldlc 

 Forest, Westmorlaiid, (1. Sla/i/cr. JJorrowdale, Cumberland, Dr. 

 Car n nil I on am/ //'. //. P. Pattcrdale, Westmorland, W. Jl. P. 

 1-'). Dunveock Glen and near Garroch, New Galloway, •/. McAin/rcir. 

 15. Balmoral, G. S/a/j/cr. IG. Glen Finnan, Dr. Carrinnlon. 

 Moidart, West Inverness, >S'. M. Macoicar. I. About Killarney 

 abundant. 



Found on the Continent and in North America, also ^Mexico, 

 Azores, and, according to " Syn. Hep.," in South Africa. 



Obs. — A most beautiful species, usually of a rosy or deep 

 purple colour ; distinguished from all other British Ccp/id/ozuc by 

 the remarkable intle.xed auricle or lobule on the lower side of the 

 leaf. 



Sometimes the stem is furcate, with a difform (unicural) leaf 

 at the fork; this and the leaf auricle, I suppose, induced Mr. 

 Mitten to make a separate genus of it; but, as Dr. Spruce points 

 out, this rare feature is also seen in other Ccp/ia/ozi(/', and the 

 auricle disappears in some of the ordinary leaves, towards the a})ex 

 of drawn-out stems and branches, and always in the bracts, thus 

 rendering these characters not of sufficient value to separate it 

 from true Cep/ia/ozia. I regret this, as I should have been glad 

 to have followed Mr. Mitten in associating the name of Nowell 

 with this elegant species. 



John Nowell was a working-man botanist, who had a most 

 intimate knowledge of the Hepaticie, and who was one of the 

 most modest and generous of collectors. My readers will, I trust, 

 pardon me for inserting the following lines by his I'rieud, 

 Mr. Stansfield : — 



" Nature to Inm 

 Wa.s ever, ever blooming ! Ah, to tell 

 The rapture that, even in winter's depth, 

 To him could yield each tiny, glistening moss, 

 Or lichen grey, clothing the barren rock I 



AVhat nook of these our vales 

 Ilath he not peeped in— peeped, nay, closely .scanned^ 

 At what clear spring hath he not bent and drank ( 

 Beside what stream, or through what dough, hath he 



