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or more, ert-61 and fliortert in bogs nnd mr.r{l>fs, 

 and of a dark green colour, their tops only red •, 

 but proftrate and longeft in r:vultts nnd cas- 

 cades, and of a dark or blood- red colour. 

 The leaves in the adulr plant are roundifh, or ob- 

 tufoly oval, convex on the vippcr fide, concave 

 on the under, denk-ly imbricated, embracing 

 the nerve at their bafe, and deflex'd in fi;ch a 

 manner over the nerve as to make the ftalks ap- 

 pear almoft round, or at lelt femicylindrical. 

 Between thefe leaves, at their bafe, on the un- 

 der fide, may be difcovered other Icfler leaves, 

 or auricles, nearly of the fame lliape with the 

 larger ones. 

 ' In the young plants the leaves are round, plain, 



alternately and more thinly fct, very variable in 

 fize, and without auricles. 

 The frudifications we have never yet been able to 

 difcover. Dillenius and Micheli have Jiavc ob- 

 ferv'd farinaceous granules at the fummits of the 

 flalks, and Halkr has feen the vagina and pe- 

 duncles of a Jungermannia growing from the 

 fame part, fo that there can be no doubt of its 

 being truly a [ungeimannia, as the whole habit 

 and external appearance declare. 



J, frondibus fubtus bipinnatis apice reptantibus, 

 ^ " '*° foliolis quadridentatis. Sp.-pl i5g<^. (Dillen.mu/c. 



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