298 HEFATICE. 



2. Fertile stem x 16 (Scotland, Original, Hooker). 3. Ditto 

 (Sweden, Lindberg). 4. Ditto (Yorkshire, Mudd). 5 Leaf x 16 

 (Sweden, Lindberg). 6. Portion of leaf x 16 (Todmorden, 

 Nowell). 7, 8. Bracts x 24 (Todmorden, Dr. Carrington). 

 9. Perianth x 16 (Slogdale, Mudd). 10. Cross-section of perianth 

 X 16 (ditto). 11. Ditto (Bay sdale, Mudd). 12. Perigomal bract 

 X 24 (495, Gr. & E.) 13. xintheridium x 85 (ditto). 14. Juwjer- 

 mania Goulardii, Husn. x 16 (68, Husn. Hep. Gall.). 



5. Jungermania sphserocarpa, Hook., var. lurida (Diim.). 



tnia lurida, Dum. Syll. Jung. p. 50 (1831). 

 Jungermania nana, Nees Nat. Eur. Leb. 1, p. 317 (1833). 

 Aplozia lurida, Dura. Hep. Eur. p. 60 (1874). 



Obs. — Dr. Spruce writes : ''Jungermania sjjharocarpa, Hook, 

 is a species I have gathered abundantly both in England and the 

 Pyrenees, but I have not had occasion to re-examine it for many 

 years. Now, I have gone over all my splicer ocarp a and lurida, 

 and utterly fail to find any specific distinction between them. 

 The former is larger and often lax-leaved ; the latter smaller and 

 with more crowded, more transverse, and proportionately wider 

 leaves ; but there is no essential difference. 



" The Jungermania Goulardii, Husn. (of which you will have 

 specimens in his Exsiccata) had been previously gathered by 

 myself in exactly the same place — the ascent to the Gorge of 

 Esquierry in the Pyrenees. It is exactl}^ what we Britons should 

 call Jungermania sphcerocarpa, with rather broader leaves than 

 ordinary. 



" Let us come to the conclusion of the matter, which is, I 

 presume, that /. lurida, or nana, should stand as /. sijlicerocarpa, 

 var. lurida. Other synonyms will doubtless be found in plenty 

 by those who hunt for them." 



From the examination of numerous specimens from all quarters 

 obtainable, I quite agree with the conclusion arrived at by Dr. 

 Spruce, til at no satisfactory characters can be relied upon to 

 separate J . lurida, Dum. {Jung, nana, Nees) from /. spharocarpa. 



