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Jungfermannia lycopodioides, U'a//r. 



Stems prostrate, rooting; leaves divergent, 

 suborbicular, margin rcpand, five - toothed, 

 teeth nearly equal, plane, rather obtuse ; 

 stipules thick, lanceolately bifid, margin 

 ciliate. 



Jungermannia lycopodioides, Wallr. Crypt. 

 Germ. III., 76; Carr. and Pears. Exs. No. 243. 

 Jungermannia barhata var. lycopodioides, G. 

 L. and N. Syn. p. 125. 



On clay soil and amongst moss. 



Stem prostrate, rooting, nearly straight and 

 rigid, with a few furcate innovations ; leaves semi- 

 vertical, imbricate, plane, divergent, broadly em- 

 bracing the stem, transversely orbicular, pallid 

 green, soft, lobately 3-5 dentate, lobes nearly equal, 

 rounded, mucronate, reclined upwards ; involucral 

 leaves ventricose, embracing, 4-5 dentate, teeth 

 acuminate. Stipules close, sub-imbricate, bipartite 

 or bifid, and the acuminate lacinia^ often to the 

 middle ciliately dentate. Perianth terminal, or 

 by innovations subdorsal, oval, plicate. — [Plate ^, 



fig- 58) 



Dr. Carrington seems to think that /. Lyoiii 

 .should be referred as a variety to this species. 



** Stipules none. 



Jungermannia Lyoni, Tayl. 

 Stems ascending, rather branched ; leaves 



