CRYPTOGAMIA ALGJF.. 781 



Flat pale-green Jungermannia. Anglis. 

 On trunks of trees common. III. IV. 

 , , ., This is a tender, vinelaftic fpecies, either of a pale 

 green, or a yellowifh green colour, adhering fiat 

 to the bark of trees, and irregularly branched 

 to the extent of one or two inches. The lenves 

 ■'^"' ' ■■'■' are clofely imbricated in a duuble feries and al- 



■' ternate order, of a circular figure, flat, nearly 



tranfparent, and cover the middle nerve on the 

 " ■ upper fide. On the under fide arc niinute, 



- round, or oval fcales, or auricles, at the bafe of 



the leaves, which adhere to the nerve. 

 The fruflifications arife indifferently at the extre- 

 mities and angles of the branches, and Ibme- 

 times out of the middle of them. The vagina is 



■ " comprelVd and flat, twice as large as the leaves, 



of a pale green colour, and truncated at top. 

 The peduncle is flcnder, filvcry, and very fliort, 

 not above i-i2th of an inch long. The <?«- 

 thera oval, of a greenilh black colour, and 

 ■ • burfts into four fufcous hairy fegments. 



Pale green farinaceous grains are fomerimes fcen 



■ on the edges of the leaves, as in many oihcr 

 ■Tpecies. 



dilaJntn i5' J. furculis repentibus, foliis infernc auriculatis du- 

 plicato-imbricatis, raniis apice Jatioribus. .S^. /;/. 

 ]6oo. (Michel, gen. t. 6 /. 6. Veil. Paris. :. Uj. 

 f. 10. Dilten.mufc. t. 72./. 2-j.cpt.) 

 J'.jittie dark-green convex fcaly Jungermannia. An- 

 glis. 



On 



