778 CRYPTOGAMIA ALG.^. 



vary from halt an inch to an inch and a half, 

 and grow in clufrcrs v they are either fimple, or 

 divided into two or three branches, cre6t or re- 

 clining, but not creeping. The middle nerve 

 is firm and ftrong ; the leaves, or pinnules, arc 

 narrow, linear, obcufc, plain, recurved, entire, 

 of a pale green colour, the old dccay'd ones 

 quite white ; at the base of each, on the upper 

 fide of the ftalk, is a fmall fcale, or auricle, 

 hardly vifiile without a microfcope, but none 

 on the under fide. 

 The frudtilications are produced at the extremities 

 of the flalk and branches. 'Jhe vagina is pale 

 and indented ■, the peduncle fhort, white, and 

 pellucid i the antkera roundifh, black, and 

 burfting as ufual, into four dark, red, or fuf- 

 cous fcgments. 



furpureaiT, J. pinnis fubtus auriculatls, foliolis fubrotundis 

 convexo-concavis amplexiraulibus. Scopol. FL 

 Carniol.n. 1343. Haller. hifi. n. 1861. JUN- 

 GE KM AN MA cochleariformis. Weis. Plant. 

 Cryptogam- p. 123, M^WJM jungermannia. Lin. 

 Sp- pi. 1579. {Michel, gen. L 5./. 16. Dillen, t. 

 69. /. I . opt.) 



Ked Jungermannia. Jnglis, 



In bogs, rivulets, and cafcades, by the fides of 

 the highland mountains abundantly. 



The ftalks arc either fimple, or divided into two 



. or three branches, commonly about a finger's 

 length, but varying from one inch long to eight 



or 



