1 86 HANDBOOK OP BRITISH HEPATICE. 



Jungermannia gelida, Tayl. Journ. Bot. 

 1845, p. 277. 



Stems interwoven, creeping, ascending at the apex, 

 flexuous, bifidly-branched, and rather 

 rigid ; leaves semi-vertical, secund, 

 ovate, approaching quadrate, oblique, 

 with a broad obtuse sinus, obliquely 

 bidentate (fig. 133) ; laciniae unequal, 

 acute, or mucronate, distant, very much 

 inflected in drying; stipules none ; in- 

 volucral leaves broader, erect, bifid or 

 trifid. Perianth twice as long as the 

 involucre, oblong, even, mouth obtuse, 

 complicate, capsule oval. Male inflorescence spi- 

 cate, involucral leaves saccate at the base, bidentate 

 at the apex. 



Jungermannia intermedia, Lind. 



Stem ascending, rather branched ; leaves 

 bifarious, erect, suborbicular, acutely two- 

 lobed, segments acute ; perichaetial leaves 

 3-5 lobed, incised, dentate, adpressed, 

 connate at the base; stipules none; perianth 

 terminal, obovate. 



Jungermannia excisa v. crispa, Hook. Br. 

 Jung., p. II, Sup. 2. Jungermannia inter- 

 media, Lind. Syn. Hep. p. 83 ; Gott. and 

 Rab. Exs. 60, 144, 312 ; Carr. and Pears. 

 Exs. No. 30; Cooke Hep. fig 81. 



Stems creeping, simple or rather branched, the 



