786 CRYPTOGAMIA ALGvl^.. 



' The habit of it is fo very fingular that we (hall 

 " venture to dcfcribe it as a new fpecies, till it's 



•'•"' hiitory is better alcertained by thofe who have 



an opportunity to obfcrve its different grada- 

 tions. . , • 



cencinnata j. furculis teretibus fubcompreffis denfe imbrlcatis 

 9''^' compadis, foliis convexo-concavis glabris, flori- 



bus peduncunlatis. {Fig. nulla nifi fit Dillenii mufc. 

 /. -jZ'f' 38O 

 Braided Jungermannia. Anglis. 

 Upon the rocks on the Highland mountains fre- 

 i quent. IX. X. _ , ■ 



.The ftalks are about a quarter of an inch high, 

 irregularly branched, like the preceding, and 

 grow together in matted tufts of a reddiih brown 

 colour on the t( p, the bafe and roots pale green. 

 The ftalks are extremely flender and filiform, 

 but thickeft at the extremities of the branches, 

 not exactly cylindrical, but a little comprefs'd, 

 and fo firm and clofely imbricated on both fides 

 v.'ith a double alternate feries of convexo-con- 

 cave, oval, compreflTed leaves, as to refemble, 

 when magnified, the texture of a braided lock 

 of hair, or that of a round plaited thong-whip. 

 The leaves are very numerous, undiftinguifhablc 

 by the naked eye, fmooth, brown, but (lightly 

 membranaceous, and whitifh on the edges, and 

 always preffed clofe to the ftalk, both in its moifl 

 and dry (late. The anthera are fufcous, and 

 grow on the fummits of the branches, on fhort 



peduncles. 



