HANDROOK Ol I'.RII ISH HKI'.\TIC>1% 183 



subquadrate, recurved, trifid ; pericha-tial 

 leaves rather long ; perianth lateral, ovate, 

 plicate ; stipules none ; fruit at length lateral. 

 finioeniinmiia Lyoiiiy Tayl. 1 rans. Bot. S(jc. 

 Edin. I., p. ii6, t. 7; Spruce Trans. V)oi. 

 Kdin. III., 204; Carr. and Pears. Kxs. 

 No. 31. 



Amongst mo.ss. — {Plate ./, fig. ^j.) 



Stems 2 or 3 inches long, erect, or ascending, with 

 entangled short, flat, simple, pale yellowish roots, 

 along the inferior side. Colour of stems dark chest- 

 nut brown when dry, paler above when wet. Leaves 

 pale brownish yellow, with a slight greenish hue 

 when moist, rounded quadrate, half embracing, 

 concave at the base, divided at the outer side into 

 three (rarely four) lacinise, middle tooth usually 

 smallest. Pericha^tium of two leaves,the lower quad- 

 rifid, the upper five or six fid, both recurved ; 

 calyx swollen and smooth, cylindrically obovate, 

 about five plaits at the top, mouth shortly ciliate. 

 Capsule oblong-rounded, pedicel short. Easily 

 distinguished from /. barbata by the absence of 

 stipules, more oblong calyx, less concave leaves, 

 which are less imbricated, and subsquarrose. It 

 differs from/, incisa by its greater size and ascend- 

 ing stems, by the leaves being rounded anteriorly, 

 and having the lower laciniae reflexed, by the more 

 tumid and less plicate calyx, by the squarrosc 

 pericha^tial leaves, by the greater distance between 

 the leaves, and their paler colour. — Taylor. 



Jimgermannia socia, Nees in Syn. p. 111, 

 appears in British lists apparently on 



