26o HANDBOOK OF BRITISH HEPATICiE. 



Exs. 206, 207. Mctzgcria linearis, Moore Irish 

 Hepat. 666. 



In moist situations. 



Plants 10 cm. long, 2\ mm. broad, pallid, 

 )'ello\vish, greenish, or lurid yellow, shining when 

 dry, very pellucid, dichotomous, linear, obtuse at 

 the apex {J>late 7, fig. 88), margins much reflexed, 

 nearly meeting, so as to make the stems appear 

 half-round when dry, subelliptic in transverse 

 section, hairs very long, in twos or threes to- 

 gether, spreading widely, and arcuately bent. 



This appears to be the M. furcata j3 elongata of 

 Hooker's Jungermanniae, pi. 56, fig. 2. 



Metzg-eria conjugata, Und. 



Autoicous, robust, rather elongated, more 

 or less dichotomous, or irregularly pinnate, 

 or decompound, linear, but narrower in some 

 parts than in others ; antically convex, in 

 transverse section more or less semi-lunar ; 

 hairs longish, singl}^, or often in pairs on the 

 margin, and divergent. 



Metzgeria conjtigata (Dill.), Lindb. Hedv^-. 

 1876, p. 1 1 ; Dill. Muse, t. 74, f. 45, D.E. ; 

 Gott. and Rahb. Exs. 119, 274/^ ; Carr. and 

 Pears. Exs. 205 ; Lind. Mont. Metz. fig. 6. 



On hd.xV.— {Plate 7, fig. 8g.) 



The paucity of hairs and more horny substance 

 of the stems distinguish this from any of the normal 



