JUNIPERUS. 



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KIDNEY. 



ft Amphigastria wanting. 



XII. PHYSIOTIUM. Fertile perigone 

 membranous, oblong-lanceolate, decurved. 



2. Leaves succubous (the bases covering the 

 tips of those below). 



* Amphigastria present. 



XIII. SACCOGYNA. Perigone membra- 

 nous, saccate, pendulous, glabrous, mouth 

 with a membranous margin, by one side of 

 which it is attached to the stem. 



XIV. CHEILOSCYPHUS. Perigone deeply 

 2-3 lobed, epigone chartaceous. 



XV. LOPHOCOLEA. Perigone 3-lobed, 

 3-angular, lobes crest-toothed. 



XVI. SPHAGINC^ETIS. Perigone terete 

 below, 3-angular above ; mouth denticu- 

 late ; amphigastria only on the gemmiferous 

 branches. 



XVII. JUNGERMANNIA. Perigone tubu- 

 lar, plaited-denticulate, the mouth 3-6 cleft. 

 (Some species of Jungermannia have no am- 

 phigastria). 



XVIII. ALLICULARIA. Perigone ter- 

 minal, adherent to and enclosed in the ur- 

 ceolate perichaete, the mouth regularly den- 

 ticulate. 



** Amphigastria, absent. 



XIX. PLAGIOCHILA. Perigone com- 

 pressed, truncate. 



XX. SARCOSCYPHUS. Perigone adherent 

 to the perichsete, leaves 2-lobed. 



XXI. GYMNOMITRIUM. Perigone want- 

 ing, ripe sporange included in the perichaete. 



XXII. HAPLOMITRIUM. Perigone want- 

 ing, ripe sporange exserted. 



JUNIPERUS, L. A genus of CONI- 

 FERS (Gymnospermous plants), presenting 

 some interesting characters in the WOOD, 

 the POLLEN, and the development of the 

 OVULES. 



JUTE. The liber of Corchorus capsu- 

 laris, Willdenow, an East Indian plant be- 

 longing to the family of the Tiliaceae, so 

 many of which furnish fibrous substances 

 (such as the bast used for matting, the liber 

 of the lime-tree). Jute has a very long, 

 glossy fibre, and is now largely imported 

 into this country. PL 21. fig. 3 represents 

 the single liber-fibres (see TEXTILE SUB- 

 STANCES and LIBER). 



BIBL. Hooker, Journal of Botany, vol. i. 

 25. 1849. 



K. 



KALLYMENIA, J. Ag. A genus of 

 Cryptonemiacese (Florideous Algae), fleshy 



membranous sea-weeds of red colour, with 

 ribless leaf-like fronds, having three strata 

 of cellular tissue, the central filamentous, 

 the intermediate of large round cells, the 

 cortical of minute cells in vertical rows. 

 Fructification : spherical masses (favellidia) 

 of spores half immersed in the frond, and 

 tetraspores, which are tetrahedrally subdi- 

 vided, and occur scattered. The two British 

 species, K. reniformis and Dubyi, are both 

 rather rare, 



BIBL. Harvey, Brit. Mar. Alg. p. 150. 

 pi. 19 B ; Phyc. Brit. pi. 13. 123 ; Engl. 

 Bot. pi. 2116. 



KAULFUSSIA, Blume. 

 A genus of Marattiaceous 

 Ferns, with curious roundish 

 sori, formed of radiately co- 

 herent sporanges, opening by 

 a slit at the top (fig. 385). 

 Exotic. 



Magn.25diams. 



KERONA, Miill., Ehr A genus of In- 

 fusoria, of the family Oxytrichina. 



Char. Body covered with cilia, hooks also 

 present, but no styles. 



K. polyporum (PI. 41. fig. 13). Body 

 whitish, depressed, elliptico-reniform, with a 

 row of longer cilia in front below the 

 mouth ; length 1-144". Parasitic upon 

 Hydra. 



Dujardin unites the genera Stylonichia, 

 E., Kerona, E. and Oxytricha, E., in part, to 

 form his Kerona, with the following charac- 

 ters : Body soft, flexible, oval, depressed, 

 with cirrhi or thick non-vibratile cilia, in the 

 form of setse or styles, and with hooks. He 

 admits five species. 



BIBL. Ehrenberg, In/us, p. 368; Du- 

 jardin, Infus. 422. 



KERONIA. A family of Infusoria (Duj.). 



Char. Body irregularly ciliated, soft, 

 flexible, with a regular row of oblique vibra- 

 tile cilia leading to the mouth, and with 

 cirrhi in the form of styles or moveable, but 

 not vibratile hooks. This family nearly cor- 

 responds with the Oxytrichina of Ehrenberg. 



Found in stagnant, fresh or salt water; 

 some more especially when the water has 

 become decomposed ; also in vegetable infu- 

 sions. 



Three genera : Halteria, D., Oxytricha, 

 D. and Kerona, D. 



KIDNEY. The kidney consists of its 

 enveloping membranes, and the secreting 

 parenchyma. 



The membranes are two : an adipose cap- 

 sule composed of loose areolar tissue abound- 



