IW CRYPTOGAMIA HEPATICdS. 



FOOT'S happy description, copied, as was his custom, in part 

 from DILLENIUS. It is to be regretted that the original 

 descriptions of the former botanist are so few, for, in that 

 department, he was only inferior to LINNAEUS, and has not, 

 I think, been equalled by any of his successors. 



24. J. pinguis, frond oblong, irregularly branched or nearly 

 simple, nerveless, smooth, thickish, crisp, dark- green ; fruit arising 

 from the underside near the margin ; calyx very short, the mouth 

 dilated, fimbriated ; calyptra exserted, oblong-cylindrical, smooth. 

 LIGHTF. Scot. 789; HOOK. Scot. ii. 118; DILL. Muse. t. 74. 

 f. 42. 



Hah. In bogs on moors, intermixed with mosses, frequent. 



f- } Frond narrow. 



25. J. multifida, frond decumbent, pinnatifid, nerveless, plane, 

 succulent ; fruit marginal, calyx very short, the mouth dilated, 

 fimbriate WITH. iii. 1063; HOOK. Scot. ii. 118; DILL. Muse. 

 t. 74, f. 43. 



Hob. Moist clay banks, on decayed stumps of trees, in 

 patches of a dark green. Dodd's-well. New-water-haugh 

 wood. Spring. 



26. J. furcata, frond prostrate, linear, obtuse, dichotomous, mem- 

 branous, ribbed, smooth above, more or less hairy beneath ; fruit 

 arising from the lower surface of the nerve ; calyx 2-lobed, con- 

 duplicate, ciliated at the margin; calyptra obovate, hispid 

 LIGHTF. Scot. 791 ; WITH. iii. 1062 ; HOOK. Scot. ii. 118; DILL. 

 Muse. t. 74, f. 45. 



Hab. Trunks of trees and rocks, and sometimes on stone 

 walls in shaded places, in green matted patches. Spring. 



Thin and reticulated ; the margins entire, somewhat waved. 



27. 7. pubesccns, frond prostrate, linear, obtuse, dichotomous, 

 membranaceous, ribbed, pubescent in every part. HOOK. Scot. 

 ii. 119. 



Hab. On shaded rocks, rare. In Dulaw Dean. 

 Very like the preceding, from which, however, it is distin- 



