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19. Jung-ermania ventricosa, Dickie. 



Jungermania minima repens,foUis bifidis, vagina Jiorum ventricosa, Mich. Nov. 



pi. gen. p. 9, t. 5, f. 15 (172!)). 

 Lichenastrum quod Jtingermania minima repens, foliis bifidis, vagina fiorum 



ventricosa, Dill. Hist. Muse. p. 489, t. 70, f. 14 (1741). 

 Jufigermania ventricosa, Dicks. Vl. crypt. Brit. fasc. 11, p. 14 (1790); Hook. 



Brit. Jung. t. 28 (1816). 

 Lojihozia ventricosa, Dum. Recueil, p. 17 (1835). 

 Jtmgermania ventricosa, var porphyroleuca, Limpr. in Cohn, Krypto. Fl. Scliles. 



1, p. 280 (1876). 

 Jnnger mania liorphyroleuca, ISTees, Nat. Eur. Leb. 11, p. 78 (1836). 



Dioicous, csespitose or straggling amongst mosses, small to 

 medium in size, of a light or dark green colour, sometimes with, 

 a reddish tinge. Stems procumbent or suberect, simple or 

 branched, frontally compressed, innovations arising from below 

 the perianth, single and stout, giving the perianth a laterally 

 inserted appearance, or several and then slender, the postical side 

 of the cortical layer usually of a reddish or violet colour ; radi- 

 culose, rootlets abundant, of a whitish colour. Leaves semi- 

 vertically inserted, horizontal or patent-divergent, imbricate or 

 approximate, on fertile stems accrescent, on sterile stems often 

 largest about the middle, concave or reflexed, gemmiparous, 

 obovate, ovate, broadly ovate or subquadrate, obtusely and widely 

 but not deeply (about \) emarginate, rarely and only near the 

 bracts trifid, segments obtuse or acute ; texture somewhat succu- 

 lent, cells from moderate to largish in size, 4-, 5- and 6-sided, 

 roundish-quadrate, lumen usually filled with chlorophyl granules, 

 trigones small but very distinct. No stipules. Bracts broadly 

 ovate, ovate or subquadrate, bifid, trifid or quadrifid ; bracteole 

 simple and Ungulate or oblong-quadrate and emarginate, connate 

 with the bracts or rarely free. Perianth terminal, projecting 

 about \ beyond the bracts, ovate-oblong, obovate, ventricose, 

 when young and barren, smooth, upper portion obtusely folded, 

 with about 5 folds, mouth contracted, margin irregular, dentate, 

 teeth minute. Pistillidia large, long. Capsule dark brown, 



