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Highlands, in moist situations. (Fr. Aut.) 



Growing in dense tufts, i or 2 inches across, of 

 blackish appearance. Stems I or 2 to 

 3 inches long, flexible, erect, simple or 

 more frequently irregularly dichoto- 

 mous, branches simple, or with one or 

 two lateral shoots. Leaves bifarious, 

 rather distant, erect, or a little spread- 

 ing, loosely imbricate, cordate, concave, 

 margins embracing and concealing the 

 stem (fig. 124), thin and membrana- 

 ceous, dark olive, or blackish green, 

 sometimes tinged deep purple. Peri- 

 chaetial leaves like the cauline ones. 

 Perianth oblong-ovate, lengthened at 

 the base or fusiform, slightly plicate 

 above, mouth small and indistinctly 

 toothed, terminal and axillary. 



124. 



Aplozia lurida, Dumort. 



Stem creeping, fruit-bearing, ascending, 

 leaves incumbent, rounded, entire, superior 

 closely imbricate ; perichaetial leaves very 

 broad, stipules none. Perianth terminal, 

 ovate, dentate. 



Jungermannia scalaris, Web. and Mohr. 

 Crypt, p. 419. Jungermannia pumila, Lind. 

 Syn. Hep. 69, t. 2. Jungermannia nana, 

 Nees Eur. Leb. 1317; Gott. and Rab. Exs. 

 287, 512; Cooke Hep. f. 63, 64. Junger- 

 mannia lurida, Dum. Syll. Jung. p. 50 ; Carr, 



