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apex, particularly of the sterile shoots, the leaves 

 are collected in a head or cluster, colour pale yel- 

 lowish green. Perichaetial leaves large, with four 

 or five very unequal, incurved segments. Calyx 

 oblong-ovate, greenish, diaphanous above and pli- 

 cate, mouth somewhat contracted, and unequally 

 toothed. Capsule ovate, dark brown, four-valved. 

 Elaters bispiral, attenuated in both directions. 

 (Plate 4, fig. 54) 



Jungermannia ventrieosa, Dicks. 



Stem ascending, rather branched ; leaves 

 accumbent, subquadrate, obtusely emarginate, 

 concave; perichaetial leaves adpressed, 3-4- 

 fid ; stipules none; perianth ventricose. 



Jungermannia ventrieosa, 

 Dicks. Crypt. II., p. 14. Hook. 

 Br. Jung., t. 28; Gott. and 

 Rab. Exs. 184, 185. ; Carr. 

 and Pears. Exs. No. 171; 

 Cooke Hep. f. 77. 



In woods. (Fr. Spring.) 



Sometimes growing in dense 

 patches, at others scattered amongst 

 Sphagnum. Stems \ to f inch 

 long, procumbent, rarely simple, 

 more frequently once or twice 

 branched, the branches bearing in- 

 novations. Leaves rather close, 

 but scarcely imbricate, in two op- 

 posite rows, spreading, with the lateral margin 



