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CRyPTOGAMIA ALG^. 



flatyphylla. J, furculis prociimbentibus fubtus irr.bricatis, foli- 

 *^' olis coidatis acutis. Sp. ;pL 1600. {Micb. gen. t. 



6/ 5.4. Vml. Paris, t. 19. /. 9. Dilkn. mufc 

 t. yi.f. -ii.opt.) 



Great Arbor viras Jungermannia. Anglis, 



About the roots of trees In fhady woods frequent, 

 and often at the bottom of walls and rocks, as 

 about Arthur's Seal^ &c. HI. IV. 



1 he [talks are about a finger's length, comprefs'u, 

 widely and irregularly branched, nearly erect, 

 and dctach'd from the fubftance on which they 

 grow, lying over one another, fo as to form an 

 imbricated tuft or mat, generally ot a deep 

 green, and fometinies a fulcous green colour. 



The leaves a'"e oval-lanceolare, clofely imbricated 

 in a double feries, alternately dilpored over each 

 other from the right hand to the left, and from 

 the left to the right, convex on the upper fide, 

 concave on the under, and furniflied with fmall 

 auricles at their bafe. The nerve appears 

 jointed, being imbricated with fmall fcales. 



The fruftifications arife from the extremities and ' 

 fides of the branches, out of the aU of the 

 leaves. 



The 'vagina are thin, membranaceous and greenilh •, 

 the peduncles very Ihort ; the anlhera greenifli, 

 black, burfting into four fufcous fcgments. 



This is one of the largell of the BritiJJj Jungcr- 

 nicmu r. 



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